“Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction.” – Mahatma Ghandi Is it just us, or does everything just seem to move faster these days? We’ve long known the world (and hence markets) to be a noisy place, full of all sorts of things vying for our attention, but our always-on media…

“The only time to eat diet food is while you’re waiting for the steak to cook.” – Julia Child   I love the taste of an ice-cold Diet Coke. Especially with Mexican food. Apparently, the World Health Organization thinks I should not have too much of it though. Something about the artificial sweetener, I guess.…

“To be a consistent winner means preparing not just one day, one month, or even one year – but for a lifetime.” -Bill Rodgers, Four-time winner of the Boston Marathon As I begin writing this, waves of runners are launching headlong into a rain-soaked beast of a marathon course in Boston.  From its first running…

Good morning!  Many of you likely saw news over the weekend around the failure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB).  This is a good example of when the media noise gets turned up loud and we must keep cool-headed in our assessment and response.  First and foremost, we want you to rest assured that we have…

“A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.” -Herbert Simon, Artificial Intelligence (AI) pioneer This quote was buried in an article I read last month related to the launch of ChatGPT, an AI-driven chatbot that has received its fair share of media attention.  For those of you curious about what it means for the…

“We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it as not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.”                                                                                                                                                                                                                      -Eleanor Roosevelt I’m reading a book titled “From Strength to Strength”, a phrase/idea…

We do not dismiss or take lightly how market periods like this feel when we’re in them.  In a word, terrible.  Even so, we are as confident as ever that optimism pays over the long run when it comes to investing. We’re in good company with this conviction.  Famed investor Warren Buffett, in his nearly…

Though we believe our optimism about life & money is well grounded over the long run, we know our experience of growth in each doesn’t come neatly and in a straight line. And oh, how we wish sometimes we could just have the straight line!   Volatility and turbulence have returned to financial markets in recent…

These last two years have been a lot to navigate and it’s made one thing we’ve long known crystal clear: we are not the heroes of the Tschetter Group story.   There are many hero stories we could tell from nearly fifty years in this business. And it’s true, many heroes are unsung. In time, and of…

Even if well telegraphed by regular news coverage, yesterday’s invasion of Ukraine by Russia has introduced new uncertainty into the market environment, causing some near-term turbulence. We thought it worth sending a quick note.   While it would be nice to avoid them altogether, first we’ll just offer the reminder that periods of market pain and…