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04/01/2025

April 2025 Aware Investing Insights

For many working people, the ominous feeling begins on Sunday night. They know that when they wake up on Monday, they are going to have to make it through another tough day at their job—research says that Mondays are the most stressful days at work.1

12/01/2024

December 2024 Aware Investing Insights - Merry Christmas

Article 1: One of the Most Important Factors in Retirement Planning is Something Almost               Nobody Wants to Talk About

07/02/2024

Aware Investing Insights - July 2024

If you want to start a lively discussion among a group of retirement experts, just casually toss out the question, "What's the best age to start taking Social Security?"

06/03/2024

June 2024 Aware Investing Insights

June 2024 Aware Investing Insights

03/01/2024

March 2024 Aware Investing Insights

12/01/2023

December 2023 Aware Investing Insights.

A friend who was discouraged about their weight loss efforts was bemoaning the necessity of food. "If you have a drinking problem," they said, "you can give up alcohol. But if you have an eating problem, you can't just give up food."

11/01/2023

You've probably heard the old sports adage "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." It speaks to our tendency, when considering some important action, to wait until conditions are ideal and our chances of success are nearly guaranteed.

10/02/2023

October 2023 Aware Investing Insights

You see one headline that says, "Inflation Finally Under Control," followed by one that reads, "Banks Wary of Further Inflation." A news outlet announces, "Unemployment Near Record Low." Yet on the same day another says, "Tech Companies Eliminate Thousands of Jobs."

09/01/2023

Inflation and speculation are the topics of this month's Aware Investor Insights.

The recent high inflation numbers have cooled a bit. Last month the Consumer Price Index (CPI) data release indicated prices are increasing at a 5% annual rate. This was a significant decrease from last summer's spike of 9.1%.1

08/01/2023

August 2023 Aware Investing Insights

If somebody called you from an unknown number, claiming to be from your bank, and asked you to "confirm" your sensitive account information, you would probably recognize right away that this was a scam and hang up.

07/01/2023

July Aware Investing Insights - Happy 4th!

A friend recently returned from Ireland with a few Scary Stories.  He and his wife had rented a car for a few days to explore some castles.  Several of the old fortresses, they were told, were haunted.  But ghosts in the towers were not the cause of their hair-raising experiences.  It was the co...

06/01/2023

Aware Investing Insights - June 2023

Yes, you read that correctly - average returns are POSITIVE, even after entering a recession.  Just check out the graphic and info below from Dimensional if it seems unbelievable1.