Building & Maintaining Resilient Wealth
Resilient wealth creation is the purpose of investing. We all want our wealth to grow, provide income and to protect...
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Why Is Your Portfolio Invested the Way it Is?
By Russell Holcombe, MTx, CFP® I wake up early by most standards, a ludicrous hour for those that enjoy sleep. For me,...
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Bad Investing Strategies Can Be Addictive
By Russell Holcombe, MTx, CFP® One of the hallmarks of any successful financial outcome is a strong and realistic...
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Your S&P 500 Index Fund Costs More Than You Think
Here’s an investment opportunity for your consideration. It’s managed by an investment committee that seeks to...
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Sir Isaac Newton: Brilliant Physicist. Miserable Investor.
At Holcombe Financial’s recent client learning event about “Behavioral Biases and Their Investment...
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Big Data Must Die
On our annual ski trip, we decided to ride the California Zephyr, which cuts an unimaginable path through the Rockies....
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Looking for Investment Advice?
A policeman sees a drunk searching for something under a streetlight and asks what he has lost. The man answers he has...
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Warren Buffett’s Simple Investing Principles
Being in Omaha, Nebraska the weekend that Warren Buffett published his annual letter to shareholders was a great moment...
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Beating the Market: What I learned from a Nobel Laureate
After two gate changes and a mad dash at the Atlanta airport, I ducked into the bookstore while I waited for the...
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Surgeon Decides Not To Operate on Self
We are all faster and more creative when addressing someone else’s problem than when we’re addressing our...
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Danger in Perfection
Trey Junkin, center for the New York Giants, fumbled the snap making an easy field goal impossible for the kicker,...
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Financial Physics Video Blog #3
Would you invest in the pay phone today? I hope not. All great investment ideas have a shelf life. Watch video as Rusty...
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Shooting a Fly with a Shotgun
Once success happens you can no longer say, “I will continue my life now as it was before.” Tennessee Williams in...
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Money Management In One Lesson
In the classic book, Economics in One Lesson, Henry Hazlitt argues a lucid point. In the absence of strong voices bold...
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Financial Physics – Part I
If you’ve never heard of financial physics, no worries, it’s just like regular physics. There are...
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