Are we about to relive the dot-com era?

 March 14, 2022 |Alan MacDonald
It’s said that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes. I’m old enough to have lived through more than a few major stock market setbacks in my time. I started my career just before the market-wide drop of 1987. In 1996, I saw bank stocks get...
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What do stocks, gold and Bitcoin have in common?

 January 21, 2022 |Alan MacDonald
Stocks, gold and Bitcoin. At first glance, there doesn’t seem to be anything similar between these three incredibly different assets. Bitcoin doesn’t exist anywhere except on the Internet. Gold is a physical commodity. And stocks represent ownership shares...
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Managing your portfolio only gets tougher after you retire

 December 15, 2021 |Alan MacDonald
For most of us, investing is all about saving money and building as much wealth as we can while we’re still working. But for many investors, the biggest decisions we’ll make in our financial lives come when we finally make the move from accumulating assets...
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How much should a young person save?

 October 26, 2021 |Alan MacDonald
I had a great question from a young client the other day. While the question itself seems simple enough, the answer is far from easy. The client in question is a young professional in her late twenties who is embarking on an exciting career. We talked...
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Is the market too expensive?

 August 25, 2021 |Alan MacDonald
I’ve been in the financial services business for over 37 years now. In all that time, the one and only headline I’ve yet to see grace the top of any financial news section is: “the markets are too inexpensive.” On the contrary. Year after year, day in...
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