“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…

  “The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existence.” Albert Einstein   Well, this past year may have been a step up from 2020, but we’re not quite out of the soup yet.  It’s more than reasonable that folks are feeling a little worn out by the constant…

“No amount of sophistication is going to allay the fact that all your knowledge is about the past and all your decisions are about the future.”  – Ian H. Wilson, former GE executive Uncertainty, or risk, isn’t a bad thing.  It is simply the reality that any given situation has more than one potential outcome,…

The thought of summing up these last eighteen months in a short letter is laughable.  There are just way too many layers to this beast.  From the first few months of 2020 when our lives and the market were upended by a microscopic force of nature to the now welcome return to an emerging semblance…

For ages, we’ve rung bells to mark significant moments.   In medieval times, bells alerted residents of storms, fires, wars and other events, and for centuries church belfries have invited congregants to gather in worship or prayer.  It’s had its place in markets too—for the last 150 years a ringing bell has marked the opening and…