We received an email recently from a client requesting that we wire $85,000 to an overseas account. What was intriguing about the email was that it was very authentic at first glance. The email was sent from our client’s Gmail account. It was not the beginning of a new dialogue, but rather a reply to…
I love Twitter. One of the coolest things ever created, Twitter is a worldwide digital forum where anyone can express a thought, an opinion or give directions about anything anytime. As a social media website that has gathered a tremendous amount of traction, Twitter provides a means of quick and efficient communication between people who…
Last month, one of the more memorable characters in the investment industry passed away. In the 1970s and 1980s, Joe Granville was one of the most, if not THE most, famous stock market prognosticators in America. I didn't say he was the BEST prognosticator, just one of the most famous. According to the Hulbert Financial…
Laura Carley, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ (CFP®), wealth advisor and research analyst with Boyer & Corporon Wealth Management, is now a Chartered Financial Analyst® (CFA) charterholder. CFA designations are rare. Now with three double designated CFA and CFP wealth management advisors on staff, BCWM is truly setting its financial planning and wealth investment firm apart from others in Overland…
For the first time in a long time, investors are experiencing global economic and geo-political headline risk. Since late last year I have been saying that in the absence of significant “uncertainty,” stock markets might trend upward. Stock markets like quiet and certainty and they LOVED the first half of 2013. Until August, the most…
