Article, Michael Maehl, Your Money, Your Life

Pretty Good!

Pretty Good!

I’ve been fortunate to have been able to spend the past few weeks traveling and meeting people around the Pacific Northwest, the Rocky Mountain States and the Southwest. Watta great country! What great people! Since […]

Sequence of Return, The Forgotten Risk

Sequence of Return, The Forgotten Risk

In my last blog, I mentioned the sequence of returns risk and its importance when taking withdrawals in retirement. You have probably heard about the math when trying to recover from a down market. As […]

An interesting couple weeks

An interesting couple weeks

Let’s see if I have this straight. On Friday 5 Dec, the S&P and the Dow had just set new all-time closing highs. Then, by Friday the 12th, both the Dow and S&P had completed their worst […]

Thoughts on energy investing now

Thoughts on energy investing now

Friday, both the S&P500 and Dow each closed at new record highs. Since that was the 48th and 33rd time, respectively, that a new high has been made by each index this year, that alone wasn’t particularly […]

The strong dollar and investing

The strong dollar and investing

On the 19th, we had set new highs in both the S&P500 and the Dow Industrials. The 26th had the Dow down just less than one percent from there; the S&P lower by just less […]