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.
May 23, 2022
As long-term investors, we must occasionally suffer through bouts of volatility and steep equity losses. The tradeoff is that stocks…
May 18, 2022
Mike Tyson famously said, “Everyone has a plan ’till they get punched in the mouth.” Well, thus far, 2022 has…
May 12, 2022
A few years ago, we wrote a note about “Zooming Out,” a concept business consultants and life coaches sometimes use…
May 10, 2022
The current economic environment has shades of the 1970s. Much like today, the 1970s economy saw high energy prices, persistent…
April 29, 2022
In a recent academic paper, Alex Domash and Larry Summers pointed out that since 1955 there have been eight instances…
April 14, 2022
Although income is always an important topic, we think recent market volatility has heightened attention to income as retirees have…
October 19, 2021
With inflation heating up and bond yields still paltry, some are again questioning the use of fixed income (bonds) in…
May 23, 2022
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May 12, 2022