Structure Determines Performance [Video]

By Financial Design Studio, Inc. | February 11, 2020
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Our daughter Emma loves to build puzzles. Initially she would find random pieces and try to put them together. Then she progressed to looking at this picture and finding the ones that are similar had the same colors. Eventually she got around to learning to find those corner pieces that edgings and then building structure. You know what? That’s true in our financial…

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Markets Survive Yet Another Scare

By Financial Design Studio, Inc. | February 6, 2020

Barely a month after the markets sold off due to the #WWIII scare between the U.S. and Iran, markets faced another test with the spread of the coronavirus. How did it fare this time around? It’s hard to believe the month of January is over! But here we are in February and the market has been…

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Feel Versus Real [Video]

By Stephen Smalenberger, EA | February 4, 2020
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Sometimes there’s a difference between what we think we’re doing and what we actually are.  See, I love the game of golf and recently I took a little camera like this, went outside, set it up behind myself and hit record.  I took some swings and when I went back and looked at it, I…

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