Global Markets are Telling a Different Tariff Story
“Tariffs are a tax on business that get eaten by the consumer.” – Cullen Roche, Pragmatic Capitalism We won’t pretend the headline risk of tariff…
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International Diversification: Looking Beyond the S&P 500
“Valuation changes rewarding cheap stocks and punishing expensive ones is one of the most powerfully recurring features of global equity markets.” – Dan Rasmussen, The Humble Investor In the spring of 2023, Larry Summers, former US. Secretary of the Treasury,...
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Fully Invested, Light on Cash
“My most important discovery—a finding that changed the course of my career—is that the future is far less predictable than most investors think. The best…
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Pure Portfolios’ February 2025 Market Commentary
In Pure Portfolios’ February 2025 Commentary, Chief Investment Officer, Nik Schuurmans covers headline risk, AI trade fatigue, seasonality, corporate credit spreads, and volatility. Watch the…
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Myth Busting: What the Government Cannot Do
“Stories are always more powerful than statistics.” – Morgan Housel, Same as Ever There’s lots of wild theories rolling around about what the federal government…
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The Best Age to Start Social Security
When it comes to retirement, few decisions feel as weighty as when to claim Social Security. Do you take it early and lock in a…
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Err on the Side
“Most people make their investment decisions on the basis of an unreliable hodgepodge of half-baked logic, biases, hunches, emotion, and vague fantasies or fears about…
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Pure Portfolios’ January 2025 Market Commentary
In Pure Portfolios’ January 2025 Commentary, Chief Investment Officer, Nik Schuurmans covers the illusion of diversification, the Deep Seek disruption, Nvidia’s massive selloff, and the…
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Estate Planning 101: Should You Choose a Will or...
Estate planning might not be the most exciting topic, but it’s one of the most thoughtful ways to protect your family’s future. Whether you want…
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No One Learns Anything in a Bull Market
“Mistakes present a choice: whether to update your ideas, or ignore the failures they’ve produced and keep believing what you’ve always believed.” – Shane Parrish,…
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