Calling out Corporate Bonds and Getting Your Ladder on the Right Wall
Having different maturities for your bonds is called laddering and you can’t ladder anything in a bond fund.
Between the Tortoise and the Hare
The common issues our pre-retirees and retirees face are how they have saved and learning how to spend.
Whistling Past the Graveyard: Those last few years before you retire.
The Social Security check is still a pension, but it covers only the most basic of needs for most.
The Benefits of a Dividend
“The dividend from an investment can keep you warm while you wait for the stock price to rise.”
What is a Quality Investment?
It depends on your risk tolerance and the time you have to allow an investment that drops in value to recover.
Inflation Inefficiencies
Higher education, health care, and childcare are all eating more than their share of our wallets.
The History of Inflation
Part of our job as financial planners and investment managers is to take the vast amounts of financial information and identify the specific signals out of the noise that matter to each client.
Is This Roller Coaster For Us?
The financial headlines for stocks in 2009 were littered with exclamations that it had been a lost decade and yet the following 10 years more than made up for the losses. Today, those same media outlets are talking about a lost decade for bonds, and at DLK we will be running our quality investment processes week in and week out selecting the appropriate bonds for our clients.
I Spy a Bond….Fund
When Does a Bond Not Act Like a Bond? When it is in a Bond Fund.
What 20 Septembers Can Teach Us
As a grim anniversary loomed, we started looking at the time period through the lens of our investment management discipline.