Author Archives: David John Marotta

Who can remember every purchase you made? But remembering is how to keep your purchases reasonable.

Consumers often presume that an advisor associated with a large commission-based brokerage firm will have a team of managers supervising their advisor. This is a misconception.

As fiduciaries, we are on your side to ensure that your goals are met. Protecting you from elder fraud is just one of the many services we can offer as a part of comprehensive financial planning.

Every day, the government has the chance to free our children from this burden.

“No decent planner would ever create a plan that didn’t account for frequent market drops.”

Rekenthaler’s proposed narrowing of choices to a one-size fits all national solution provides a poor substitution for our current choices.

I’m turning 60 this week. Even though I plan on working as long as possible, this is an important check point.

This 2013 article explores whether the person who sits idly by while their stocks increase their net worth deserves the money they make.

They admit that they do not rebalance, have been subject to lawsuits claiming they are predatory, and are held to a relaxed standard designed specifically for them.

In short selling, a bankrupt stock is the best thing that can happen, but the worst thing that can happen is that the stock price will rise.

On Tuesday, February 11, 2020, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show to take a closer look at the calls for free college education in the socialist utopia.

That is not what anyone means by the term “rebalancing.” The misuse of the term on Investment News was glaring.

The SEC should scale back their data collection.

In our age-appropriate asset allocation models, we don’t recommend a 60/40 portfolio until you are between age 80 and 87.

City real estate will be a little less expensive and suburbs and the countryside will be a little more expensive.

If you save this target, your assets have a better chance of seeing you all the way to the end.

On November 16, 2019, David John Marotta appeared on “Real Estate Matters” with Michael Guthrie.

This data shows that there is no historical justification for selling to cash during volatile market movements.

They vary in the slope, depth, and duration of the downturn.

This is the financial shock of a trip to hospital. It is upsetting, expensive, and unexpected.

Identical firms answer questions like these differently making the resulting data meaningless and useless. If anyone wants to use this data, the SEC will need to standardize answers first. If no one wants to use this data, we should eliminate the burden of providing it.

This 2008 article has wisdom for our current downturn, “As a response to the recent market correction, you can enrich your life in three healthy ways: Cut back your spending, increase your savings, and give more generously to charities of your choice.”

At stake is if the SEC is allowed to redefine what the phrase “best interest” means to make it mean something less than your actual real-world best interests.

On Tuesday, June 9, 2020, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to talk about the markets.

On Tuesday, May 12, 2020, David John Marotta appeared on Radio 1070 WINA’s Schilling Show with Rob Schilling to refute the hypocrisy of taking a tax credit while opposing the legislation.

Should investors get out of the markets during an election year?

Dare to be dull. When you rebalance instead of following the crowd, you set yourself up for greater expected returns and are the definition of being a contrarian.

Already the COVID-19 predictions have started to come in. Do not be deceived by them. Do not be afraid of them.

Oddly, this technique might involve selling a bond position in the taxable account for a small capital gain, and buying that exact same position in an IRA in order to keep the portfolio in balance.

When I was really young, I did not realize that food had a season. What a privilege of our modern era!

Gold is extremely volatile and still doesn’t do much more than vaguely keep up with inflation. You can do better.

This 2015 article details one of the most brilliant breakthroughs in all of food science and how it relates to almost every aspect of life.

We strive to provide the necessary resources for anyone to prepare their own investment plan and meet their financial objectives for free on our blog, but we offer more services than that to our clients.

Diversification means always having something to complain about. Recently, it has been energy.

We would suggest not listening to Dent’s commentary.

If you want to do something, rebalance.

Sometimes, you don’t get a second chance to be brave.

In 2013, we went whitewater rafting on the American River in California. Our guide’s speech inspired this powerful thought piece about disaster recovery that has a message for today.

Think we’re headed to another financial crash? Take a minute to learn from our last one.

Diversification is important. Diversification did not eliminate losses, but it did lose less and recover more quickly.

This disappointment with good stock market returns explains their need to criticize stock buybacks.

You don’t have to time the market to make money in the market. In fact, timing the market is usually a losers game as the market often pushes your emotions to do exactly the wrong thing.

A recovery after a significant downturn in the markets is often market by steep growth.

“Sell the bounce” is never a good strategy because of the first word.

Market returns are out of your control. These thirteen actions are in your control.

In retrospect, it is clear that it was a good time to rebalance your portfolio, selling some of the bonds that you were so glad you had and buying more of the very stocks you were so worried about.

There are two critically important investment principles during retirement: 1) Stay calm and 2) Rebalance.

For many investors glued to the news, the global outlook appears to be perilous with no prospects of growth for the world economy.

As the stock market trends upward, this dip in market prices can be perceived as stocks being discounted and is likely a great time to buy low.

Only recently has Main Street been so fully invested. This 2007 article chronicles how it all got started.