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.
June 8, 2022
The bubble has burst. Like all bubbles that burst, the baby gets thrown out with the bathwater. It has been…
June 2, 2022
“The waiting is the hardest part / Every day you see one more card / You take it on faith,…
Roth Conversions – 2022 Edition
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…