by Springwater Wealth | Jan 8, 2020 | Newsletter
If you’ve had a chance to review your portfolio’s performance for 2019, you’re probably pretty happy. Or, at least you should be… The stock market turned in a stellar performance. In fact, as you can see below, almost every major asset class finished with positive...
by Springwater Wealth | Oct 29, 2019 | Newsletter
Very few among us remember what happened on this day in 1929. It was “Black Tuesday”, and the stock market dropped by 12% that day. The stock market’s slide had begun a few days earlier on October 24, but it accelerated until the “crash” on the 29th. The stock market...
by Springwater Wealth | Aug 6, 2019 | Newsletter
I’m not sure how the topic surfaced, as we six trekkers sat with our guide on rickety aluminum camp stools and enjoyed a candle-lit dinner inside a heavy canvas tent. Somehow, Dave – the 71-year-old guy from Britain – got to talking about cars. We quickly...
by Springwater Wealth | Jun 4, 2019 | Newsletter
One of the worst-kept secrets of investing is that if you have a properly diversified portfolio, your return will never be as good as that of the best-performing asset class. Of course, it will also never be as bad as that of the worst-performing, either… There will...
by Springwater Wealth | May 7, 2019 | Newsletter
Are you ready for your second graduate level discussion on investing, and how to build a portfolio? We’ll again promise to keep the jargon to a minimum, and to explain academic terms, if we can’t avoid using them. At Springwater, our approach to building investment...
