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.
October 26, 2021
As we approach the holidays, many of our clients begin thinking about charitable giving, both for altruistic reasons and for…
October 19, 2021
With inflation heating up and bond yields still paltry, some are again questioning the use of fixed income (bonds) in…
October 14, 2021
The stock market volatility this fall reminds us of the churn in the spring of 2018, but still far below…
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,…
September 9, 2021
That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work…
Oct 26, 2021
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Oct 14, 2021