Gary Miller reports to his clients for the Quarter-End of Sept. 30, 2021. Excerpt: "Markets are higher for the year, and I remain confident in the potential for client holdings, but attention to signs of danger are always to be considered, and there are plenty."
It’s a Wrap…2020, the year of the long term investor
While it is popular to dismiss 2020 as a terrible year, stock and bond investors who refused to panic can celebrate better than average portfolio gains. If one chooses to […]
Reduction/sale of Apple Inc. June 13, 2017
We have reduced and, in a few cases, eliminated your holdings of Apple Inc. (AAPL). This decision was driven by a sense that the Company may be reaching a transition in which its constituency of stakeholders changes from growth investors to more traditional dividend investors, the type of people […]
I wanted to share some charts that appeared in a recent Bloomberg.com article. They confirm my own experience in speaking with clients and prospective clients at this time: everyone is nervous and untrusting of the stock market. Fortunately, bear markets usually begin from a psychological place of extreme bullishness. So the emotional conditions […]
Since “going independent”, that is, changing my relationship with clients from that of “broker” to that of a fee-only investment adviser, in January 2001, the stated objective for Balanced/Value accounts has been to “capture” most of the total returns available from U.S. stocks and with less risk. As shown below, this has been fully achieved […]
On April 16, 2015 I posted an article about conflicts of interest exhibited by many who advise retirement plans. The value of retirement assets owned by U.S. plans and savers is something north of $21 Trilliion. The latest figure I’ve found was from 2013, at […]
