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- Category: Acropolis In the News
- The Hedge Fund Alternative, Part 1
- Participant Insights 2Q 2019
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- Financial Times Recognizes Acropolis
- St. Louis Business Journal Recognizes Dannelle Ward
- Financial Advisor Magazine Highlights Acropolis 401(k)s
- Financial Times Top 300 RIAs Includes Acropolis
- Category: ALM Insights
- The Year So Far
- Tax Reform’s Impact on the Value of Muni’s
- The Curve is Falling… The Curve is Falling!
- Forecasting Expected Returns
- The End of LIBOR
- What About The Bonds?
- Inflation On The Horizon
- Liquidity When You Need It
- A Cloud on the Horizon
- Yield Curve Swiftly Shifting
- Want to Make a Bet?
- Does The Fed Control Interest Rates?
- ALM Insights – January 2016
- ALM Insights – September 2015
- ALM Insights – June 2015
- ALM Insights – March 2015
- Finally, A Regulation You Can Opt-Out Of
- ALM Insights – December 2014
- What if You Called The Bond Market Perfectly?
- Why Aren’t Interest Rates Higher?
- ALM Insights – September 2014
- ALM Insights – June 2014
- ALM Insights – March 2014
- ALM Insights – December 2013
- ALM Insights – September 2013
- ALM Insights – June 2013
- ALM Insights – March 2013
- ALM Insights – December 2012
- Category: Daily Insights
- Important Notice: Fraudulent Schemes Impersonating Acropolis Investment Management, LLC. (ACR
- Sentiment Shifting
- Nobody Likes Volatility
- How Do Tariffs Work?
- The Hedge Fund Alternative, Part 2
- The Roaring 20s
- The Cutting Room Floor (Part 2)
- The Cutting Room Floor (Part 1)
- Breaking Down Bonds
- Ring in the New Year with Market Statistics
- Final Insight of 2024!
- Chance of Recession? About Average
- Are Rates Rising or Falling? Both.
- Morningstar Makes Things Right?
- Why Not All Tech?
- Don’t Text Me, I’ll Text You
- The Hottest Stocks of All Time
- The End (of the Election Season) is Nigh
- Optimization Overload: When Perfecting Becomes Problematic
- Thank You Chair Powell, May I Have Another!
- Introduction to Alternatives
- Index Fund Overhaul: Passive Investing vs. Market Concentration
- Small Cap’s Revenge (…has a long way to go)
- China vs. India
- Tech vs. the World
- When will we feel the benefit of higher interest rates?
- Want NVDA? You’ve already got it
- How Much Do You Trust the Government?
- Is the S&P 500 a Growth Index?
- Stocks Look Cheap!
- Is the Yield Curve Broken?
- The Anxiety of Private Markets
- Dow Jones Rocks 40,000
- The Best Industries to Invest
- Concentrated Risks Rising
- What Happens if Current Tax Laws Expire
- Why Are Markets Unhappy Right Now?
- Why Not Tax Fee Income?
- Feel Like Taking Risk? So Does Everyone Else
- Stocks are Expensive Again
- The Return of Sound Money
- Understanding New Rules: 529 Plan to Roth IRA Conversions
- Trading to Win at Acropolis
- Japan: The Taylor Swift of Stock Markets?
- China’s Interesting Times
- Presidential Elections & Stocks
- Trading Against Cramer Just Got Harder
- S&P 500 Enjoys Record (Close Back in December)
- Bitcoin: Coming to an ETF Near You
- Amid Soft-Landing Talk, Leading Indicators Still Signal Recession
- Happy New Year
- Fed Chair Powell Dons Red Suit and Fake White Beard
- Visualizing the Labor Landscape
- Why We Fear Inflation
- Fooling Yourself with Private Market Math
- 30 Market Timing Signals that Worked
- Have Bonds Become More Volatile Than Stocks?
- Active Passive Word Play
- America’s Credit Rating
- Stock Bond Correlation Changes Aren’t Concerning
- What’s Happening in China?
- Thank You Short-Sellers
- So You Say You Want Alpha: Cathy Woods has Some
- Glad to be Alive
- You Better Think (think!) About Estate Planning
- Lessons from the Land of the Rising Sun
- Decoding How the Mighty Greenback Shapes Your Investments
- The McNealy Problem
- The Bond Market is of Mixed Minds about a Recession
- The Market Has Bad Breadth
- Debt Ceiling Crisis in Perspective
- America & the PIIGS
- Stock Buybacks: Finding Common Ground Amid Controversy
- How to Avoid Disaster
- ChatGPT Did Not Write This Insight
- The March Towards Exchange-Traded Funds
- Successful Trading at Acropolis
- Cash Matters
- Banking Crisis: Swiss Edition
- Silicon Valley Bank: Something Broke
- Silicon Valley Bank: Something Broke
- Silicon Valley Bank
- Betting with Jim Cramer. Or Against Him
- Considering Inflation Protected Bonds (Again)
- New Rules Could Mean New Strategies
- Acropolis Clients Market View
- Acropolis Investor Social Day
- Acropolis Invest Social Preview #2
- Acropolis Investor Social Preview #1
- Let Private Investments Stay Secret
- The Risk of Stagflation
- Feeling Custodial Joy
- Good News for Stocks & Bonds (Less so, for Crypto)
- We Planned For This
- When Recessions End
- Low Volatility Investor Expectations
- Returns: Before, During and After Recessions
- Fed Indirectly Signals Recession
- Core Inflation Knocks Market
- It’s Good to be the Queen or King, Financially Speaking
- Happy Anniversary – Acropolis Turns 20!
- The Word From Jackson Hole
- Fed Tightening and Stocks
- Warren Buffet
- Patriots for a Weaker Dollar
- Looking at Inflation, Backwards and Forwards
- Looking at Inflation, Backwards and Forwards
- Value’s Long and Winding Road
- Visualizing the Supply Chain
- The Chance of Recession
- And Now: Some Good News
- Inflation: A Deep Dive
- The Second-Most Important Element of Retirement Planning
- A Look at Bear Markets, Part II
- A Look at Bear Markets
- Pricing Lessons from Private Investments
- The Week When Not Much Happened?
- Ben Franklin on Volatility
- Now Showing on Netflix: A Cautionary Tale
- Socially Responsible Investing
- Economists Estimate the Probability of Recession
- Stagflation & Misery
- Visualizing Market Losses Today
- The High Cost of Hedging
- Russian Exposure in Your Portfolio
- The Market Response to Russian Invasion of Ukraine
- Another Bond Market View of the Economy
- Looking Forward, Value is Easier to Own
- The S&P 500: An Increasingly Concentrated Bet
- Market Froth Turning Flat
- Big Bets Prove Costly
- Interest Rates & Tech Stocks
- The Fed’s Policy Pivot: Higher Rates Ahead
- The S&P 500 Doubled in Three Years. Now What?
- Alternatives are Tough
- Illustrating Inflation
- Omicron Variant Strikes Markets
- Inflation Runs Hot
- Finally: Dow 36,000
- The Trouble with Tesla
- I Finally Bought Bitcoin
- Before You Invest in Alternatives
- Is China’s Evergrande Our Lehman Brothers?
- Inflation and the Price of Milk
- What Kills a Bond Portfolio
- The Fed and the Long Term
- Emerging Markets Submerge of Late
- How Many Stocks is Too Many?
- When You Think One Thing, Think Again
- Happy Birthday America!
- Federal Reserve Changes its Tune
- Drawdowns in Retirement, Part Deux
- Drawdowns in Retirement
- Betting Big on the Future
- Inflation Data Spooks Market
- Our Yale Education; Remembering David Swenson
- Biden’s Tax Proposal
- Derivatives in Your Portfolio
- Down the Data Rabbit Hole
- Having it all with Buffer Funds?
- Roth 401k Considerations
- Sensational Small-Caps
- Investing for Inflation
- Worried About Inflation?
- Acropolis Trading Results
- Where the Economy Stands Now
- Modern Robin Hood is No Hero
- The GameStops Here
- What the SPAC?
- The Hottest Funds of 2020
- Special Election Coverage!
- Yield Curve Control
- Economic Growth Expectations
- Worried About Inflation?
- Since the Great Depression
- A Look at Unemployment Rates
- Nothing Can Stop America
- 6 Things To Do (plus one bonus) If You’ve Finished Netflix
- Economy Contracts, Stocks Surge. Surprised?
- Financial Conditions Easing
- Stocks or Bonds in a Recession?
- Chance of Recession: 100 Percent
- Dodging Commodities
- Oil Gets Weird
- Unemployment Today
- Junk Bonds in Today’s Market
- Corporate Bonds in Today’s Market
- Coronavirus & Earnings Season
- Markets Stabilizing, but Still Turbulent
- A Breath of Fresh Air
- COVID-19 and Acropolis
- From Inside Acropolis
- Markets Testing Your Mettle
- We Planned for This
- NEW! 2020 Retirement Plan Contribution Limits
- Trade Troubles
- Acropolis Has Moved!
- Is Warren Buffett Worried?
- The Secret to Yale’s Success
- Why Hire a Financial Advisor?
- The Most Powerful Man in the World?
- The Most Powerful Man in the World
- Risk & Volatility
- Calling Dr. Draghi, Dr. Mario Draghi
- Stretching Your Dollars, Here and Abroad
- When Warren Buffett Speaks, I Listen
- Why Bother with International Stocks?
- Lessons From the Shutdown
- Is the Market Rigged?
- Mr. Market Evaluates Macro Data
- Ba Humbug!
- What’s Driving the Market Lower?
- Yield Curve Inversion: What It Means for Investors
- As The World Turns, Sometimes Quickly
- The Market to the Fed: We’ve Got Three Big Questions
- Stocks Enter Correction
- Interest Rates and Equities: A Selloff Explained
- What Ever Happened to Bitcoin, Anyway?
- Remembering Lehman Brothers: What Have We Learned?
- How Much Will Retirement Cost? The WSJ May be Wrong
- Just How Rich Are You?
- Performance Like You’ve Never Seen
- Turkey: Contained or Contagion?
- More Tax Cuts to Come?
- Trade Wars and Interest Rates
- Whither Value? Ask Warren Buffett
- What’s Your China Exposure Amid the Trade Skirmish?
- Bond Yields: Still Crazy After All These Years
- What Happened to International Stocks?
- Changes are Coming to the S&P 500
- Don’t Get Greedy!
- Why Aren’t Stocks Higher?
- Unemployment at 20-Year Lows; Time to Buy?
- Cheap Rates
- Retelling the Story of Concentration Risk
- $1 Billion Tax Bill
- Tariffs, Profits and Global Growth
- Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
- A Look at Tariffs and Trade Wars
- Busting Another Wall Street Myth
- Hollywood Goes to Wall Street
- Who is Jay Powell?
- The Dip Was Bought
- Stock Market Correction: The Early Autopsy
- Market Summary: Extended Analysis
- What the Heck Just Happened?
- The Market’s Next Phase
- New Tax Law, New Tax Strategies
- Recession Risk in 2018 is Greater Than You Think
- My Prediction for 2018
- The Tax Overhaul Details (In English)
- Efficient Markets Fact and Fiction
- The Crazy Thing? Stocks Could Go Much Higher
- The Bucket Approach
- The Canary in the Bond Market?
- The Fault in our Stars
- How the Fed Could Change
- Trump’s Tax Principles
- Changes to the Missouri Most 529 Plan
- The Equifax Breach: What to do Now
- Cliff Asness Says, Fire Your Mechanic
- New and Improved: The Shiller PE Ratio
- What the Hell is Bitcoin, Anyway?
- Is Volatility Too High? Goldilocks Says it’s Just Right
- Getting to Know Your Volatility
- Could the Inherited IRA Be Eliminated?
- The Most Remarkable Investor that You’ve Never Heard Of
- Retirement Spending Rules of Thumb
- It’s Not an Index Fund
- Buying China
- Bond Market Views on Growth and Inflation Today
- Quants and the Media
- Watching for Traps, Growth & Value
- Woodstock for Capitalists
- Remembering Dan Esser
- The Fed’s Next Move
- Markets are Quiet, Enjoy Them for Now
- A Long View of Non US Stocks
- A Fund Struggles and I Can’t Look Away
- Meet the Fed’s FOMC
- How to Think About the Market’s Valuation
- The Words of Warren Buffett
- The High Cost of Healthcare for Retirees
- What is a Border Adjustment Tax?
- A Quote to Consider from Sir John Templeton
- 2017 Forecasts: Part V
- 2017 Forecasts: Part IV
- 2017 Forecasts: Part III
- 2017 Forecasts: Part II
- 2017 Forecast: Part 1
- I am a Capitalist
- How Long is the Long Term?
- 2017 Wall Street Forecasts
- Bond Market Fascinations: An Interview
- Dow 20,000
- Occasionally, the Unlikely Happens
- Taxes: A Hint of What’s to Come
- Bond Rally and Rout to Nowhere
- Trump and the Reflation Trade
- Small Cap Surge Continues
- Mr. Trump Meets Mr. Market
- What the Election Means for Your Portfolio
- Equity Risk Dominates Your Portfolio
- Prerequisites for Alternative Investments
- Buffett’s Wild Ride
- Two Lessons from the Third Quarter
- Is the Grass Greener in Private Equity?
- Is Inflation Creeping Back?
- The End of Summer Break
- Lower For Longer: The View from Tokyo
- Yellen Speaks, Market Yawns
- Dow Falls 1,000 (One Year Later)
- Investors Behaving Badly
- Allocating to Risky Assets
- Awaiting a Positive Economic Shock
- The Peril of Company Stock
- Fed Seems Hawkish to Media, Not Markets
- Modest Results for Public Pensions
- A Silly but True Market Anomaly
- Turkey’s Failed Coup and Your Portfolio
- Is Helicopter Money Coming to Japan?
- Earnings Season is Upon Us
- Currency Hedging after Brexit
- Employment Rebounds, Lifting Markets
- Negative Swiss Yields Get Even Crazier
- Why Did Stocks and Bonds Gain Last Week?
- The Market Hates Uncertainty
- Mr. Market Trades the Brexit
- EU Article 50
- Currency Prices are Efficient Too (and sometimes wrong)
- Friday Could Have Been Worse
- Britain to Leave EU: Keep Calm and Carry On
- REITs: An Asset Class or Just Another Sector?
- Bullard’s Errant Dot Matches Market
- Bond Market Continues to Surprise
- Small Caps Simultaneously Over- and Under-Perform
- Lessons from Lawn Care
- Know A Banker? Love a Banker?
- Fed Minutes Suggest Markets May Wrong
- PIMCO Shows that Discipline Can Pay Off
- Buffett Considers 2nd Tech Investment
- Forced Sales are Fire Sales
- Do Behavioral Biases Matter?
- Is Acropolis Contrarian?
- Mindfulness Meditation in Montreal
- 1st Quarter GDP: Another Stinker
- Fed Stands Pat For Now
- Corporate Bond Risks and Returns in the News
- Tubman Unseats Jackson, Saves Hamilton
- Tax Trivia to Ease the Pain
- Yale Bets Big Overseas
- Watching Your Fellow Shareholders
- Healthy Aging: Building Your Social Network
- Welcome, Broker-Dealers. Seriously.
- Yield Curve Madness
- Capital Markets in Perspective
- The Real Unemployment Rate
- When to Head for the Exits
- Over-Promising and Under-Delivering
- Healthy Aging: Why Put Family First
- Brexit Basics
- Healthy Aging: The Challenge of Leisure
- Active Funds Still Struggle
- King of Wall Street Remembered
- Naming Names on Broker Misconduct
- Employment Data Supports Stocks
- Performance Transparency
- The Inside Story on Trading Costs
- Applied Investment Rigor
- Is Value Investing Dead?
- Another Year of the Bump
- An Unusual Energy IPO
- Time and Transparency
- Fed Policy: From ZIRP to NIRP?
- Predictions are Really, Really Hard
- Why This Isn’t Another 2008
- Interest Rates in Perspective
- As Expected, Fed Stands Pat
- Drawdowns Part Deux
- Drawdowns Help Visualize Losses
- Stock Losses Take a Breather
- Stocks Post Amazing Late Day Rally
- Stock Prices are Lower. Are They Cheap?
- Does the Stock Market Selloff Make Sense?
- Insight: Fed’s Backing Down
- Insight: More Bears are Growling
- Insight: David Bowie, Finance Wizard?
- Earnings Season is Upon Us
- China Rocks Markets
- Oil Prices Drop on Middle East Tension?
- Stocks End Year with a Whimper
- Market Forecasts Part 2
- Market Forecasts Part 1
- Oil and Energy Stocks
- Treasury Bills Beat Oil 30 Years On
- Analyzing Air Force Bombers
- Fed Euphoria Fades
- The Fed Awakens
- Finally, Fed Day is Today
- Junk Bond Selloff Continues
- S&P 500 Turns Negative for Year
- Trouble in Junk Bonds
- When Trends Reverse
- Stocks Pop on Unemployment Data
- Mario Draghi Taketh Away
- Stocks Reverse Solid Gains (Exactly)
- A Good Way to Give Back
- Performance Fees Get Exposure
- A Free Lunch for Thanksgiving
- Possible Law Changes Beyond File and Suspend
- Injured Unicorns Spotted in Silicon Valley
- What Retirees (and Pre-Retirees) Worry About
- A Big Bet on Emerging Markets
- We Stand with France
- Navigating Bond Market Holidays
- When Hedge Funds Come and Play
- Jobs Report Gives Fed Ammunition
- New Data Helps Planning for College
- Interest Rates May Head Higher
- Value Stocks Don’t Party Like it’s 1999
- Rocktober in Three Charts
- New Budget Curtails Social Security Maximization Strategies
- Fed Wake Up Call: December is on the Table
- Efficient Markets: Fact and Fiction
- Jack Bogle Doesn’t ‘Do” International Investing
- Profits Are Falling (Again)
- I’ve Got an Embarrassing Admission
- Deflation in Switzerland
- The Right Time Horizon for Stocks
- Visualizing Stock Returns
- Who is to Blame for the August Market Selloff?
- Today’s Ugly Duckling is Tomorrow’s Swan
- Bond Traders Know Best
- Active or Passive? Yes, Exactly.
- Best Cities to Retire
- What If I was Japanese?
- Some Bonds Fall as Stocks Falter
- Can One Stock Foil the Market?
- The Possible Impact of a Housing Slowdown in China
- What Investors are Anxious About
- Don’t Worry, Be Happy and Live Longer
- Bonds Funds at 84 Cents on the Dollar
- Now That’s What They Call Dovish
- Puzzling Hedge Fund Returns
- The Secret Sauce Behind Value and Momentum
- A New Fed Plot Twist?
- St Louis Stocks Shine
- Debt Ceiling, Here We Come (Again)
- California Pension Funds Intriguing Duel
- Oil as an Inflation Hedge
- The Chart That Made Me Laugh Out Loud
- Downside Protection That Doesn’t Protect
- Deconstructing the Dow Jones Industrial Average
- Stocks and the Real Economy
- When Trading Goes Haywire
- Are Stocks Cheap Now?
- The Biggest Implication of the Market Stress
- Dealing with the Market Rout
- This is Investing, So Stick With It
- Emerging Market Currencies Roil Stocks
- Pull the Trigger Already
- High Yielding Asset Classes
- The Outlook for Stock Returns
- What Success Looks Like
- Wincing at US Market Valuations
- The Chinese are Nervous
- Buffett Bags an Elephant
- The Secret to Stock Buyback Returns
- Greek Stocks Fall 16% in One Day; Markets Still Efficient
- Lower Oil and Earnings: A Tough Combo
- Acropolis Dodged a Bullet
- Get Out Your Smelling Salts: The Fed Speaks
- When the Index is Wrong
- Bear Markets in Oil and Energy
- Diversification in Today’s Market
- When Bubbles Burst: China Edition
- How Investors See the Greek Problem in Two Charts
- Greece to Creditors: Heck NO
- Doing Well by Doing Good
- Markets Respond Reasonably Well to Greek News
- The Situation in Greece Intensifies
- The State of Housing in Three Charts
- The Sun is Shining on Small Cap Stocks
- Maximizing Social Security
- Save Alexander Hamilton
- A Strategy for Stock Sectors
- A Wall Street Creation Working FOR Investors
- The IMF in the Spotlight
- What Drives Long Run Economic Growth?
- How to Tell Emerging from Developed Markets
- The Law of Unintended Consequences
- Is It Too Late to Sell in May and Go Away?
- The Right Time Horizon for Stocks
- Interest Rates Rising
- How Stocks Have Stayed Higher
- Emerging Powerhouse
- Where is GDP Headed?
- ETF Deathwatch
- Finding the Best Ratio to Value Stocks
- Advice for Graduates: Buy Stocks
- Quality Investments Over Quantity Investments
- Dow 36,000
- Nobody Knows Nothin’
- The Trouble with Hedge Funds
- Another Wall Street Soap Opera
- Unconstrained funds and Uncontained funds
- Celebrating Short-Sellers
- Estimating the All-In Costs
- Those Brits Know Investing
- American Stocks and Cities
- Twitter is the Perfect Growth Story
- Attention Gold Bugs: Don’t Worry, Be Happy
- Flash Crash Surprise, Five Years Later
- New Thoughts on the Active Passive Debate
- China’s Red Hot Market
- A Real Greek Tragedy
- Momentum: A Moving Body in Motion
- Finding True Diversification in Alternatives
- Wither Emerging Markets?
- Behavior Beats Strategy
- A Value Investing Primer
- Old Advice, as Valuable as Ever
- To Hedge or Not to Hedge
- Money for Nothing: Negative Yields
- Are Markets Getting More Volatile?
- A Small Cap Primer
- A Test Too Tough
- Equal Weight: Something New Under the Sun?
- Cat Bonds: Profiting from Tranquility
- Beat the Market in Bonds
- Warren Buffett’s Special Access
- It’s Tax Time (for Suckers)
- And the Yields Keep Tumbling Down
- Fund Manager Beats Market for 40 Years
- The Fed’s New Drug of Choice
- Women and Investing
- What Corporate Bond Yields are Telling Us
- Currencies and Candy
- A Bear Market Strategy
- It’s Good News that Good News is Bad News
- Another New Normal?
- Vanguard Changes Course
- Another Internal Market Correction
- NASDAQ: Party Like It’s 1999
- Buffett Speaks, Acropolis Listens
- Trading to Win
- The Euro: Making Calls and Taking Falls
- Negative Yields: It’s a Crazy Mixed Up World
- Mutual Funds: Decisions, Decisions..
- Fun With Discount Rates
- Black Box Investing
- The Wrong Kind of Diversification
- New Data for the Fed to Chew On
- Investing Made Simple
- Smart Money Kids
- The Peril of Being Different
- Inside the Belly of the Yield Curve
- The Vastness of the Emerging Markets
- Those Clever Institutional Investors
- Expected Returns for Stocks
- Size Matters, If You Control Your Junk
- Currency Traders Beware
- When a Strategy Stumbles
- The ECB Strikes Back
- Burgernomics
- Are New Taxes Coming?
- CalPERS Scales Back Private Equity
- Central Bank Shocker
- How High Should Interest Rates Go?
- Two Questions for Bond Investors
- Mind Blowing Sector Returns
- Labor Market Improving, More Needed
- Inflation Expectations in 2015
- The Specter of Deflation
- As January Goes, So Goes the Year
- A Great Year for Bond Investors
- Economic Growth: Past, Present and Future
- Stocks Enjoyed Amazing Results in 2014
- 2015: The Year Ahead
- Insider Trading Made Easy
- Beating the Index
- Small Cap is Dead. Love Live Small Cap!
- The Allure of Market Timing
- Splitting Hairs with Janet Yellen
- New Dilemma at the Federal Reserve
- Bonds Surprise and Delight
- There’s A Sucker Born Every Minute: High Yield Products
- Portfolio Construction: Get Your Yellow Hard Hat On
- Tony Robbins: From Life Guru to Markets Master
- Index Funds Transform Investment Landscape
- Forecasting Oil Prices
- Jim Cramer Gets Burned in Lightening Round
- Perpetual Income
- We Are the World: Global Investing
- Using Donor Advised Funds
- A Surprisingly Efficient Market
- Investing at All-Time Highs
- Why Invest in Commodities?
- A Look Inside Superior Performance
- How to Get a $200 million IRA (no joke)
- Are Banks Safer?
- Japan is in Recession. When is it Not in Recession?
- S. Korea Has Outsized Impact on Emerging Indexes
- Warren Buffett Continues to Be Clever
- Should You Buy Long-Term Care Insurance?
- Finding Meaning in the Morningstar Star System
- WSJ: One Story, Two Bad Headlines
- Mano a Mano with Ben Bernanke
- The Perils of Non-Traded REITs
- GDP Treats Investors
- Federal Reserve Ends Quantitative Easing
- Anatomy of a Short Squeeze
- You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
- Choosing a Trustee
- Lower for Longer
- Finding Higher Yield
- Are Micro Caps Signaling a Bottom?
- Why Are Stocks Faltering?
- Treasury Bond Yield Tumbles
- Crude Oil Falls: A Tax Cut for Everyone
- Dirty Words of Finance
- CNBC Reports Markets in Treacherous Territory
- When The Fed Speaks, The Market Listens
- The Outlook for Inflation
- Taxes Sure Take a Bite
- Help Your Kids and Grandkids with a 529 Account
- Patience is a Virtue
- 3 Current Stock Market Observations
- My Experience with Alternative Investments
- Bill Gross, Meet Derek Jeter
- Canaries in a Coal Mine: Stocks Sell Off
- Retiree Spending
- Hedge Funds Flip-Flop
- When Academics Go Bananas
- Alibaba vs. Amazon
- ETF Deathwatch
- The Naked Truth About Actively Managed Mutual Funds
- Where Your Taxes Go
- Planning on a Long Life with Longevity Insurance
- Avoid This Catastrophic Loss
- It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Smart Beta
- Value in the Modern World
- Markets React to Disappointing Jobs Data
- Why We Avoid Junk Bonds
- Supreme Court Weakens Inherited IRA
- Falling Dollar Fallout
- Want Value? Look Overseas at the Shiller PE
- Retire Your Mortgage or Retire With Your Mortgage?
- Diversification or Di-worse-ification?
- A New Milestone: S&P 500 Closes Above 2,000
- The Unique Benefits of REITs
- Janet Yellen and the Ice Bucket Challenge
- The Bull Market That Won’t Die
- Mutual Fund Fees Matter
- Avoiding Risk Can Be Risky
- Not All Indexes Are Created Equal
- Classic Conflict of Interest
- Riots and Homeowners Insurance
- What Argentina’s Debt Default Means to You
- Official Market Forecast Update
- Pension Cuts Hedge Fund Investments
- Money Market Reform
- Visualizing Bond Returns
- Taxes Sure Take a Bite
- Money and Happiness
- Penny Stock Scams
- When Interest Rates Rise
- Fire Burn and Cauldron Bubble
- Unemployment Report Does’t Disappoint
- Getting Better After-Tax Returns
- Cash is Trash
- Labor Market Picks Up
- Cliff Asness Says: Fire Your Mechanic
- Do Hedge Funds Hedge?
- GDP Turns Negative
- Black Swans
- Bank Loan Risks
- Investors Keep Chasing Performance
- The State of Housing
- Treasury Bonds Mystery
- Dogs of the Dow
- IRA Rollover Rule Changes
- The Trouble with College Savings
- It’s Easy to Beat the Market
- The Truth About Global Growth
- PIMCOs Star System Goes Awry
- Are Small Caps Expensive?
- The Wisdom (and Madness) of Crowds
- The Market is Not Rigged
- Quarter End Wrap-Up
- Buybacks vs Dividends
- You Can’t Time the Bond Market Either
- Yellen Speaks and Moves Markets
- Daily Insight: The European Deflation Scare
- Which Stock Sector is Best?
- Five Years of Bull
- When to Take Social Security Benefits
- Acropolis vs the Yale Endowment
- New Investing Insight from Warren Buffet
- Ukrainian Unrest
- The Market is Over Valued. Now What?
- Bonds & Bond Ratings
- Who am I to Judge?
- Fed Tapers as Bernanke Departs
- Client Goals Trump Everything
- Emerging Markets Tail Wags Dog
- Time to Exit Emerging Markets?
- Acropolis vs Harvard Endowment
- How We Use Past Performance
- Morningstar’s Manager of the Year
- Bond Yields – Spread ’em
- December Jobs Data Disappoints
- Are You Liquid?
- Inflation Measurement or Manipulation?
- Growth vs Value in 2013
- Ring in the New Year Right
- Less Than Great Expectations
- Category: Participant Insights
- Participant Insights 1Q 2019
- Participant Insights 4Q 2018
- Participant Insights 3Q 2018
- Participant Insights 2Q 2018
- Participant Insights 1Q 2018
- Participant Insights 4Q 2017
- Participant Insights 3Q 2017
- Participant Insights 1Q 2017
- Participant Insights 2Q 2016
- Participant Insights 2Q 2017
- Participant Insights 4Q 2016
- 1Q 2016 Participant Insights
- Participant Insights Q4 2015
- Participant Insights 3Q 2015
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401K Plans
- Whaley Steel
- Remedi SeniorCare
- Integrity Pharmacy
- Star MTM
- Medicine On Time
- Wolken Dental, D.D.S, P.C.
- Victor Pipe & Steel, Inc.
- Ullico Inc.
- The Weeks Group
- Titan Carpentry
- TJ Wies Contracting
- SSE
- Systems Service Enterprises, Inc.
- Dental Anesthesia Center
- Sleep Dentistry - St. Louis
- Newbold Toyota
- Newbold BMW
- Seventeen Motors, Inc.
- Anodyne Surgical
- PSI/Eye-Ko, Inc.
- Clarest Health
- Tap RX
- ProCare LTC
- Premiere Eye Associates
- Partek Incorporated
- AmCon Labs
- Nomax, Inc.
- Westbrook Dialysis
- Nephrology Associates
- Navvis & Company
- MBI
- Modern Business Interiors
- MRHFM
- Maune Raichle Hartley French & Mudd
- Ho'ola Healthcare
- goBRANDgo
- G&W Engineering Corporation
- Surround Care
- Esse Health
- Doll Services
- DES
- Defense Enterprise Solutions
- Falling Springs Quarry
- Casper Stolle Quarry & Contracting Co. Inc.
- BVENT
- Boulder Valley Ear Nose and Throat Associates
- Barklage, Brett & Hamill
- Acropolis Investment Management
People
- Jack Carpenter
- Laura Baum
- Stephanie Harkless
- Karen Nelson
- Heather Burke
- Jennifer Orr
- Nathan Levinson
- Andrea Levinson
- Alex Umble
- Miranda Hagar
- Andrea Lathrop
- Jessy Behrens
- Scott McKillip, CFP®
- Nathan Ward
- Mimi Rudolph
- Ched Wagner, CFP®
- Amanda Mertens
- Brad Combs, CFP®, CPA
- Michele Clark, CFP®, CRPC®
- Brian J Smith, CFP®
- Maria Wagner
- Matt Binder
- John McClelland, CFP®
- Leslie Akers
- Bob Fleming
- Ryanne Harmann, QKA, QKC
- Cynthia McKillip, CFP®
- Kaley Pogrelis, CFP®
- Robert Schramm
- Amy Crews, QKA, QKC
- Seongpil Hong, CFA
- Minjung Son, CFA, CIPM
- Ryan Craft, CFA
- Marie Tustin, CFP®
- Lauren Kingsten, CFP®
- Stacie Brost, CPA
- Cliff Reynolds, CFA, CFP®
- Sakis Salas, CFP®
- Joe Kelley
- Gary Melchior, CFP®
- Michael Lissner, CFP®, CEPA
- Dannelle Ward, CFP®
- David Ott
- Chris Lissner