“Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world.” – Jeanette Winterson, English author I’ve asked the…
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Pure Portfolios’ 2024 Reading List
How to Drive your Retirement Portfolio into the Ground
“Invert, always invert.” – Charlie Munger, the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffett’s partner. Long-term investing is boring. Markets take time, discipline is hard, and being patient isn’t exactly thrilling. It’s been said the human mind rejects ideas that...
read morePure Portfolios’ November 2024 Market Commentary
In Pure Portfolios’ November 2024 Commentary, Chief Investment Officer, Nik Schuurmans, covers how the market tends to overshoot post-election, how stocks perform when one party…
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Reckless Government Spending: How it Could Impact Your Investments
“We are going to be broke really quickly unless we get serious about dealing with our spending issues.” – Paul Tudor Jones, hedge fund manager…
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Could Future S&P 500 Returns Be Lower?
“History doesn’t repeat, but it often rhymes.” – Mark Twain Anyway you slice it, the S&P 500 is historically expensive. The conundrum for those waiting…
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Pure Portfolios’ October 2024 Market Commentary
In Pure Portfolios’ October 2024 Commentary, Chief Investment Officer, Nik Schuurmans, covers asset class returns & falling inflation, how often the U.S. economy is in…
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Consumer Sentiment and S&P Returns
“There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.” – Adam Peaty, Olympic swimmer What comes first, confidence or success? It’s a question I’ve…
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The Danger of Recency Bias in Investment Decisions
“Why would I own anything other than the S&P 500?” “I’m thinking of putting my entire retirement nest egg in the S&P 500 and calling…
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Fed Cuts and Mortgage Rates Higher?
“Just wait until the Fed cuts, the housing market is going to get white hot.” – random real estate agent Do you know someone that…
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Let’s Freak Out About the Election (Seriously)
We have penned blog after blog how elections are a non-event in the grand scheme of your investment portfolio. We recorded a video outlining every…
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