AlphaTrust Advisors

08/09/2021

The Tokyo Olympics have come to a close and the USA topped all categories in medal count. However, I've always felt it a bit disingenuous to compare countries of vastly different size this way. This graphic from Visual Capitalist does a great job of presenting the raw numbers along with medals per capita.

After 17 days and 339 events, Tokyo 2020 has come to an end. Here we visualize the final Olympic medal count for participating countries.

06/29/2021

There's a lot of hate going around for people and institutions who short (or bet against) stocks. Bloomberg had a good article this week on why the market NEEDS short sellers. https://hubs.la/H0Rg4kh0

01/29/2021

Moran Cerf is a professor of neuroscience and business. Every week, he receives questions about psychology, business, and behavior via email from people who attend his talks; below are his answers to two recent questions.

01/28/2021

People often overlook a key source of retirement income and underestimate how much it is worth to them.

01/27/2021

If letter grades were given out for financial literacy, the United States would get a C+ at best. Globally, the nation ranks 14th in the world for basic financial skills, with only 57% of adults considered financially literate.

01/26/2021

The Wall Street Journal Fitness Challenge, a six-week program of exercises, is made for all ability levels.

01/25/2021

Making changes to your day is the quickest path to consistently productive sleep at night.