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…

Hello and Welcome to Summer (right on schedule for Seattle as our summer weather typically doesn’t turn up until after July 4th)! I recently returned from a beautiful trip over the first part of June to hike with my daughter for eight days through the Bernese Oberland region of Switzerland. My daughter graduated last month from…

Greetings and Happy Spring! For many of us, the renewal of spring signals that it’s time to get into spring cleaning mode – sweeping the dust out, rotating our wardrobes, decluttering our rooms. The goal is to tidy and freshen up your living space as the new season rolls in. I know for me, taking…

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…

You may have heard a new voice answering your calls over the past few weeks. We recently added a new teammate to your Tschetter Group roster. Please join me in welcoming Alden Gwinn as our Client Service Associate. Alden brings joy and excitement in working with people with careful attention to detail and a heart to serve…

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…