Hello and happy Monday to everyone, Voting is open now. Official election day is next Tuesday, November 3rd, which is only 2 weeks away. Certain voting centers are open in your county this week Monday-Saturday if you plan on voting in person. Check your local area for times and locations. We encourage everyone to vote. [...]
Hello and happy Monday to everyone, Have you heard of the term ‘priced in’? This is by no way an exact science but the term ‘priced in’ refers to the market is already adjusting for something that is expected to happen, but hasn’t yet happened. I bring this up because I continue to receive information [...]
Hello and happy Monday to everyone. Well today, Affinity got back one of our own in the office, clear of Covid-19. Yeah. Symptoms were minimal. But regardless, healthy and back to work in the office. Bad news, we have now another one working from home starting today. That teammate’s daughter was spending time with her [...]
Happy Monday to everyone. Big Monday Night Football game tonight, Chiefs at the Raven’s stadium. Update on our Affinity employee with Coronavirus; this person experienced cold like symptoms and is now feeling much better. We plan on welcoming this person back to work from home work-quarantine next Monday. ☺ Side note; each and every person [...]
Happy Monday to everyone. Well, enough time has passed and now Affinity has been exposed to Covid19. Sooner or later it was bound to happen. As careful as we are in the office and in our personal lives, the odds increase over time that one of us would get it. A spouse of an Affinity [...]
Happy Monday/Tuesday to everyone. Today’s email, I want to share some insights to our industry. A look “behind the curtain look at Oz” in a financial advisory office. Some behind the scenes limitations. These topics are the genesis of my 2nd book currently being written. Before I do, at the bottom of this email in [...]
I am out of the office this week for my first getaway of 2020. This email is coming from out of the office and not in its usual format. This is a short email. Last Monday’s email I noted, I was skipping this week’s email due to short week, plus I am out of the [...]
Happy Monday August 31 to everyone. It’s Presidential Election season, and without trying to support one political party over another, or to say anything offensive, let me try and explain some of the rationale behind why the markets can be volatile during election time. Most print and TV news networks seem to be at bit [...]
Happy Monday August 24, 2020. I don’t know about you, but I am ready for 2020 to be over. Or simply, I’m ready for the old norm to return. I don’t think the old normal will be the new normal again for some time. I rarely go anywhere these days and when I do, I’m [...]
Happy Monday August 17th to everyone. I will get the occasional question when doing reviews, how we choose the certain pieces for the “Highlights form Analysts and Economists” section. At Affinity, we gets lots of data every day in various forms. We get our data from podcasts, emails, blogs, webinars, and calls we make into [...]