Welcome to our blog. With client questions, observations and comments as inspiration, we’ve been writing about investments, markets and financial planning since we founded Atwater Malick in September of 2008. Below are links to some of our recent essays. We hope you find them educational and enjoyable.
November 5, 2021
“Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.” – Yogi Berra Hindsight bias is a misconception arising…
October 6, 2021
In the world of investing, “indexing” is an overused, ambiguous and nonspecific word. Investopedia defines indexing as “the adjustment of…
October 1, 2021
American cartoonist Rube Goldberg (1883 to 1970) was famous for his illustrations of overly engineered machines designed to perform relatively…
September 21, 2021
In the post-World War II years, volatility in U.S. equity markets has served to push fragile money out of stocks,…
Three Investing Mistakes to Avoid
August 18, 2021
Obviously, this is not an exhaustive list of investing errors, merely a short summary of three significant mistakes all of…
July 26, 2021
A good financial advisor should be a coach to his clients. Wikipedia says, “Coaching is a form of development in which an…
July 9, 2021
Investors generally use the phrase “margin of safety” to describe Benjamin Graham’s philosophy of purchasing a stock with a market…
Jun 06, 2023
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