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Quote of the Day "We went from trying to prevent layoffs to daring companies not to do them inside of a single calendar year." (Joshua Brown) Chart of the Day TIPS returns are more complicated than you think. (chart via @ycharts)…

TONIGHT AT 5:30PM EST! Skylar Olsen joins Michael Batnick and I on a special episode of Live from The Compound! Dr. Skyler Olsen is the Chief Economist at Zillow. Previous to her current position, Skyler founded a consultancy supporting public-facing economic…

Parenting—it’s perhaps the most rewarding and expensive thing you’ll ever do. Oh, and by the way, you wouldn’t happen to have over a quarter of a million dollars lying around? Why, you might ask?  Because a recent Brookings Institution study found that…

Mondays are all about financial adviser-related links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at how to text with a client in a compliant fashion. Quote of the Day "An advisor is much more…

Every bear market has these two things in common: They end Expected returns go up The first thing is self-explanatory. The second thing should be obvious but from my talks with thousands of investors over the years, I have found that…

Executive Summary Welcome to the October 2022 issue of the Latest News in Financial #AdvisorTech – where we look at the big news, announcements, and underlying trends and developments that are emerging in the world of technology solutions for financial advisors!…

So you’re wondering what income level is considered rich. After all, if everybody makes $1,000,000 a year, are you considered rich if you make only $500,000 a year? Probably not! In other words, rich is relative and also subjective. When Obama…

By Dr. James M. Dahle, WCI Founder You have often heard the phrase around here, “If you've won the game, stop playing,” perhaps most famously from WCICON22 keynote speaker Dr. William Bernstein. It obviously makes sense on an intuitive level, but…

I’m going to tell you a quick story in the order in which it happened. You were there. You will be familiar with the sequence of these events. But you may not have reached the shocking conclusion that I have. At…

Quote of the Day "A dull observation can become important when you realize it’s an enduring trait of human behavior." (Morgan Housel) Chart of the Day A bear market need not end at a 20% decline. (stockcharts.com) Markets Strategy Autos Finance…

On Saturdays we catch up with the non-finance related items that we didn’t get to earlier in the week. You can check out last week’s edition here. Have a great weekend! Quote of the Day "Social pressure is something we make…

By Alistair Vigier, Guest Writer Being an investor these days can undoubtedly be nerve-wracking with market uncertainty seemingly looming around every corner. Whether it’s global conflict, supply chain issues, record-high inflation, or fears of a recession, the investing public is surely…

Here are some things I am thinking about heading into the weekend. 1) Balancing Intrinsic and Extrinsic goals to achieve happiness. Adam Grant posted this wonderful paper discussing intrinsic and extrinsic goals relative to overall happiness. In short, intrinsic goals are…

After making landfall as a major hurricane, Hurricane Ian caused exceptional damage and serious impacts for residents in its path. This storm, like many before it, caused destruction that will require weeks, months and even years of recovery and rebuilding efforts.…

Have you ever noticed that as a whole, our society has its daily habits almost completely backwards? We’re generally so “busy” that we don’t have time to get much exercise. And then we spend countless sedentary hours sitting in our cars…

Executive Summary Enjoy the current installment of “Weekend Reading For Financial Planners” - this week’s edition kicks off with the news that a former Department of Labor official expects that it will take until next year for the agency to release…

Quote of the Day "We prefer rhetorical grace and an emotional charge to precise linearity and the work of hard thought. Because we are constant simplifiers, we prefer a clean and clear narrative to a complex reality." (Robert Seawright) Chart of…

Fridays are all about podcast links here at Abnormal Returns. You can check out last week’s links including a look at common misconceptions around nuclear power. The biz Business Economy Finance Non-finance

Let’s say you’ve currently got about $250,000 in cash. With the global financial recession building, opportunities are piling up. However, things could get worse in this bear market given we’re only nine months in. How would you invest it? 2022 has…

Welcome to the latest episode of The Compound & Friends. This week, Michael Batnick, Katie Stockton, and Downtown Josh Brown discuss bear markets, separating the signal from the noise, the VIX, technicals vs fundamentals, and much more! You can listen to…

[Editor's Note: If you’ve reached a place of financial security, it’s nearly time to take the next steps on your financial education journey by registering for the 2023 Physician Wellness and Financial Literacy Conference (WCICON23). Early-bird registration is coming soon, so…

Just a quick note here in case you noticed the new email subscription feed. Google recently killed Feedburner so we moved everything over to FollowIt. We were informed that the format was ugly and had to alter the format of the…