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What History Tells Us About Elections and the Market

In planning how to finance a large purchase before age 59 ½, it’s common to consider the idea of taking a withdrawal or a loan from a 401(k) or another retirement account. Taking money from your retirement funds is not a decision to be made lightly and can come with a few undesirable consequences.

Are you always Changing Lanes? How is that working for you? 

Do you look at the market several times a day, do you watch the financial channels on your television and do you listen to all the predictions about the market??

Then I recommend that you read the attached article and let me know what you think.

Tuning Out the Noise

Investing is a long-term endeavor.  So how can we as investors, maintain discipline through bull markets, bear markets, political strife, economic instability, or whatever crisis jour threats progress towards our investment goals?

For many investors, 2017 was a paradox. The harder they tried to enhance their results by paying close attention to current events, the more likely they failed to capture the rate of return the capital markets offer.

10 Principles to Improve Your Odds of Success

Each quarter we post on our website a quarterly report to give you a market summary for the last quarter.  You can review world stock market performance, index returns and select country performance just a mention a few.  Just click Compass Financial Strategies Quarterly Review  and enjoy.

Do you participate in your companie's 401(k) if you are eligible? 

Do you ever ask yourself  "What are the advantages of participating in a 401(k)?"  Here a just a few things to think about..

Click here to read an article that will give you some insight on uncertainty in the market.  One clue is our emotions...