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How Diversification Helps You Sleep Better at Night
At FourThought, we know that peace of mind matters just as much as performance when it comes to your financial future. That is why FourThoughts' Senior Analyst, Jake MacFarlane, has prepared a short piece titled “Diversification: Sleeping Well at Night.” It is a...
Changing of the Tides
The markets have experienced significant movement over the past month, with volatility driven by shifting valuations, policy uncertainty, and economic trends. While these fluctuations can feel unsettling, they are a natural part of the market cycle. In the attached...
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An Update From the Watch Tower: Five “Wolves” in the Woods
To be a great investor you must think in terms of probabilities. Do not attempt to predict the future. Pundits predict, and when they fail, they say, “Well, that is because XYZ happened and who could have predicted XYZ?” The problem is that their punditry costs you...
Effects of a Contested Election on Our Investments
Potential Effects on Your Portfolio and Psyche People are worried right now. They are worried about Covid-19, worried about civil unrest, worried about educating their children and worried that they will never be able to resume life as it once was. At the top of the...
Q3 Economic Commentary: Wait Until You See the Whites of Their Eyes
Imagine that you live in a village a long time ago where you work together to farm and make things to help the community survive and thrive. Unfortunately, outside the village there are some very bad “wolves” that can attack and wreak havoc. There are guards placed...
Is Your Financial Advisor a Fiduciary 100 Percent of the Time?
“Fiduciary” is a an important-sounding word whose meaning is sometimes vague or confusing. Most people associate it with finance and responsibility, which is correct. Its origin, however, is actually in law. Investopedia defines it this way: “The highest legal duty of...
Two Big Investment Risks in a Common Retirement Strategy
Great children’s stories often teach lessons about our world that can help their readers for a lifetime. The basic truths they teach often apply to investing. In Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Emperor has No Clothes,” a vain king is tricked into believing he is...
Technology is Fueling Our Lives and Investments, But Should We be Worried?
If someone had given you $1 million to invest in 1970, then told you that the global population of 3.7 billion would double over the next 50 years, what would you have invested in? At the time, many would have gone for commodities. More people means more food, more...
What the Bubba Wallace Story Can Teach Us About Investing in This Moment
When a hangman’s noose was found in the garage of Black NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, there was an immediate cry for justice and widespread horror that such events are still taking place. The story unfolded differently, and in hindsight can teach something about...
Four Facts for June 24, 2020: Treasury Yields, Tech Stocks and Missing Out on Economic Recovery
Video Resources
From The FourThought Team
4 Minutes with FourThought Market Update: Q1 2025
https://youtu.be/-AYCLjCN7lg
Cash Flow Planning for Financial Freedom Investors
Here’s our latest video on cash flow planning.
FourThought’s Fourcast Q1 2021
https://vimeo.com/511274618 Enjoy our short video with highlights of our economic analysis and commentary for the first quarter of 2021. For in-depth information download our free WHITEPAPER HERE.
Four Facts for June 24, 2020: Treasury Yields, Tech Stocks and Missing Out on Economic Recovery
Four Facts for May 29: Hong Kong, Brazil and a Vaccine on the Horizon?
https://vimeo.com/424119370