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Blog #1 (introduction)
WHY A BLOG ON "MAKING CENTS OUT OF THE NEWS"?
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
Every quarter or so, for over thirty years, I've been sharing ideas about the financial markets
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Blog #05-2012
(February 2nd, 2012)
It’s the Economy, and We’re Leery, Not Stupid
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
The 2.8% annualized growth rate during the last quarter of 2011, more than two and a half years into a recovery, is deeply
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Blog #04-2012
(January 26th, 2012)
Energy Shortage or Environmentalist Scare?
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
Green? Where energy is concerned, I’ve been green for thirty years. I’ve invested my own money and that of my clients
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Blog #03-2012
(January 19th, 2012)
Is Europe’s Economic Crisis Our Problem?
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
The U.S. stock market remains extremely sensitive to what is going on in the Euro zone, essentially Western Europe. This past
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Blog #02-2012
(January 12th, 2012)
When Mom Needs a Nursing Home
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
Most of my readers, I’m well aware, have substantial means. Most, I’m also aware, have either Long Term Care insurance or
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Blog #01-2012
(January 5th, 2012)
“Cooling It” on Global Warming
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
Last month at a meeting held in the beautiful warm city of Durban, South Africa, the coalition of countries concerned about global
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Blog #43-2011
(December 22nd, 2011)
Spyglass on the Stock Market
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
My friends at Frank and Kraft, estate planning attorneys in Indianapolis, provided the inspiration and resource information
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Blog #42-2011
(December 15th, 2011)
Spyglass on the Stock Market
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
Observations from the recent quarterly newsletter issued by RM Walker Associates are worth sharing with my
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Blog #41-2011
(December 8th, 2011)
Crisis-Insulation for Your Income
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
The European crisis, I’ve little doubt, will ultimately be solved. On the other hand, I’m not holding my breath
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Blog #40-2011
(December 1st, 2011)
Don’t Tax You, Don’t Tax Me, Tax That Rich Fellow Behind The Tree!
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
I admit to a degree of bias in favor of entrepreneurs. All during my close to half a century in the investment business, I’ve targeted
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Blog #39-2011
(November 24th, 2011)
Recession Fears – Are You Looking
for the Boogeyman or Studying the Indicators?
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
A boogeyman, according to Wikipedia, is an amorphous imaginary being used by adults to frighten children into behaving. Right
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Blog #38-2011
(November 17th, 2011)
“Lurching” from Pillar to Post
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
The most appropriate descriptive term for the “gait” of investment markets this year might be “lurching.” With 1-3% daily moves
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Blog #37-2011
(November 10th, 2011)
When Inflation’s Not an “If” – a Lesson from the Arkansas Traveler
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
It’s only a matter of “when," not “if.” Just as soon as inflation again rears its ugly head, it is sure to trigger an end to the thirty
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Blog #36-2011
(November 3rd, 2011)
A Watched Portfolio Can Boil – and Burn You!
Bonus - Year End Tax Planning Memo
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
The stock market, as I am sure readers know, came roaring back in October. Standard and Poor’s 500 Stock Index gained 10.77%, a
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Blog #35-2011
(October 27th, 2011)
Long Life to You – and Your Money!
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
It’s always puzzled me, the way financial planners, in devising retirement planning strategies for clients, tend to project withdrawal
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Blog #34-2011
(October 20th, 2011)
A Reverse Mortgage - Me?
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
As co-founder of the local Financial Planning Association chapter, I try to attend our quarterly meetings whenever I am in
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Blog #33-2011
(October 13th, 2011)
The Mission and the Challenge
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
Forgive me, but I couldn’t resist. When prominent financial planner and Financial Planning Magazine columnist Deena
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Blog #32-2011
(October 6th, 2011)
Partial Retirement Can Bring Total Rewards
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
Ever since the first “Baby Boomers” came on the scene post World War II, 65 has been considered the “normal” retirement age. As
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Blog #31-2011
(September 22nd, 2011)
Stemming the Financial Illiteracy Epidemic Must Begin at School
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
Going through the financial reports each day, I attempt to filter out the “jargon” of which my investment advisory profession is so
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Blog #30-2011
(September 15th, 2011)
Thirteen Could Be a Lucky Number for the Joint Committee
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
If anyone is suited to offer advice to Congress, it would be my well-respected fellow CFP® member Eleanor Blayley, who
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Blog #29-2011
(September 8th, 2011)
Listening to Markets, Not Market “Experts”
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
“Unexpected” seems to be the description the mainstream press applies to bad economic news, observed Jonah Goldberg in a
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Blog #28-2011
(September 1st, 2011)
Life-Jacket Speculation in the Stock Market
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
Last month at a delightful lunch I shared with two “shipmates” I met on a transatlantic cruise, the conversation turned to the
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Blog #27-2011
(August 25th, 2011)
Will You Travel the Chicken Little Route or take the Templeton/Buffet Highway?
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
During every one of the past fifty years that I’ve spent commenting on the markets and the economy, one thing has alway
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Blog #26-2011
(August 14th, 2011)
1987 All Over Again?
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
These past two weeks the stock market reminded me more of 1987 than 2008. Following 60 days of “sloppy markets”
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Blog #25-2011
(August 8th, 2011)
Poor Report Card from S&P
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
As all my readers surely know by now, last Friday night Standard and Poor’s, one of the three top debt rating services, did
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Blog #24-2011
(August 4th, 2011)
Not Just Yet!
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
All the dire talk of a U.S. default, endlessly repeated in the mainstream press, turned out to be (as I knew it would) just
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Blog #23-2011
(July 28th, 2011)
Thoughts On Approaching a Landmark in Investment Management
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
This coming Monday, August 1, I start my fiftieth year in the investment business. While I’ve gained much investmen
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Blog #22-2011
(July 21st, 2011)
You Can’t Regulate Crooks
By Tom McAllister, CFP®
It was no big surprise when, about a month ago, folks from the Indiana Securities division paid me a visit. Regulators come
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