Singled Out: Historical Performance of Individual Stocks

  • Single stocks have a wide range of returns. Only about a fifth of stocks survive and outperform the market over 20-year periods.

  • They delist at a high rate, even those that have been around for a long time and have outperformed the market for 20 years.

  • The chance of any single stock outperforming the market in the future is not meaningfully different when conditioning on its past performance.

A Little Wisdom about Inflation

Inflation measured nationally is a little higher than the long term expectation of 3%. It’s almost always present and it is normal for it to rise and lower over time. Interest rate hikes are being implemented starting March 16, 2022, as a normal process to dampen inflation.

How to Fund a Trust & Advice on How to Implement and Maintain a Trust

As with many topics in the financial planning space - estate planning is often misunderstood and not managed well. Many attorneys are great about creating and getting paid for the initial legal work - but most are not willing to hold you accountable to fund, maintain and update the trust over time. Often the attorneys themselves have no business succession planning to make sure you’re taken care of if something happens to them. If those tasks are not done, or the attorney has no succession planning in place, the trust may not do what you wanted at the time it is most needed!