Good morning! Last week, dinner tables—this week, metabolism. The broad scientific definition of metabolism is a set of processes within a living organism that occurs in order to sustain life. For us, we usually refer to the word as how our bodies turn food into useful energy and we’ve been stuck on this idea as a helpful analogy to…

Good Monday morning (again)! Believe us, we’d rather NOT be sending market updates weekly, but things are moving quickly and we hope we can be a helpful voice in the midst of all of this. Our  last two updates  touched on coronavirus as its spread seemed to spark the market turbulence that is now entering its third…

Good Monday morning!  We sent a note on coronavirus and market turbulence mid-week last week.  We noted that the news may get worse before it gets better and since then we’ve certainly seen more market declines and headlines that tempt us to fear and frazzle. This one touches each of our day to day lives in a way unlike…

Since we sent our 2020 market outlook letter just over a month ago, investors have added coronavirus to the list of near-term worries. We certainly don’t blame anyone for feeling unsettled about this global—though still mostly limited to China—health threat and we have plenty of compassion for those directly affected. Prior to this week, global markets had…

Happy New Year! We welcome 2020 with great hope and expectation for the years ahead. A decade ago, we were less than a year off the bottom after one of the worst bear markets in history as the global financial crisis unfolded in 2008 and 2009. Things didn’t feel so great at the time with…

Our bodies are a wonder; a delicately balanced mix of interconnected systems that help us navigate the world around us. One example is the stress response system and we thought it might be fun to dive in to see what it can teach us about successful investing. Hang with us, we promise we’ll bring it around. When…