Before worrying too much about runaway prices and the inability to pay the rising costs, we believe it’s important to look at a few underlying factors.

We want to emphasize six aspects of investor psychology - also known as cognitive biases - that tend to hurt investor performance, and what investors can do to address these biases.

Smart investors do their homework, find people they can trust and use strategies that work for them. Here are three things investors must know about themselves.

You have probably heard the saying, “Stocks are riskier than bonds.” While the logic makes sense, are stocks actually riskier than bonds?

While history has shown that US stock markets have handily outperformed international developed markets in nine of the last eleven calendar years, we may be due for a sea change.

We believe economic inflation is a real risk - the other edge of the sword in contrast to the risk of stock-market volatility that is so often referenced in investment-risk discussions.

A SPAC is a publicly traded company that raises money from investors with the intent of taking some not-yet-determined private company public. Like giving your child a blank check to go buy whatever they want. What could go wrong?

The typical millionaire may surprise you. I think these characteristics and actions tend to help people grow their wealth over time.

Depending on individual circumstances, some people consider converting their Traditional IRA to a Roth IRA in an effort to increase longer-term after-tax returns.

Cash management remains vital to both risk mitigation and capital preservation. How can you increase your expected return via cash-like holdings?

We don’t think that growing revenue, growing profits, or undervaluation can adequately explain GameStop’s valuation growth. Instead, we think short-term price speculation explains the majority of the dramatic growth.

Ignorance is bliss. At least that’s how we feel about the markets in 2020. The person who did not look at the news or troubles of the world was rewarded with an incredible year in the markets.

We think having the next generation beginning to invest is a great thing. We believe these points can help you as you start your investment journey.

Since expected U.S. inflation is now near the long-term target of 2.00%, we think it is reasonable to expect that interest rates will remain near current levels.

Based on our research, we believe your portfolio allocation and the discipline to stick to it are far more important to your results than who is President.

As we begin the last quarter of a surreal 2020, SJS feels compelled to “unmask” the U.S. stock market’s performance year-to-date.

I am often asked by aspiring entrepreneurs, “What business should I start?” If you can find overlap in these three areas, you just might have a business idea.

The stock market, like the bookmaker, handicaps all known information. You are betting on if your expectation is different than what the market expects.

As the stock market goes, so goes the economy. However, in any given year, economic ups and downs can diverge significantly from the direction of the market.

In our estimation and experience, most predictions are largely speculative and unreliable. The only prediction we are prepared to make is based on historical evidence that prices/economies tend to recover after economic shocks.