by Daniel Busman | Apr 21, 2023 | Weekly Wisdom
What should you know? Life expectancy continues to rise around the world. The graph below shows how global life expectancy has increased since 1950: When you look at this chart you must be very careful as averages can often hide the reality. This reflects the life...
by Daniel Busman | Apr 14, 2023 | Weekly Wisdom
What should you know? A Mexican fisherman docked his tiny boat at the pier of his small coastal Mexican village, as he did most days. Inside the fishing boat were several large yellowfin tuna. A passing American complimented the Mexican on the quality of his fish and...
by Daniel Busman | Apr 6, 2023 | Weekly Wisdom
What should you know? Many of you will be receiving bonus payments during April. Annual bonus time is a moment many of us look forward to with excitement and anticipation. The question is “what should you do with it”? The chart below shows how a person who invested...
by Daniel Busman | Mar 31, 2023 | Weekly Wisdom
What should you know? We are in month 17 of the market downturn that began in November 2021. Anxiety remains elevated amongst investors, many of whom are living through their first real experience of a prolonged temporary decline – the first one is always the...
by Daniel Busman | Mar 24, 2023 | Weekly Wisdom
What should you know? Here we show the distribution of annual returns of the S&P 500 since 1950: 19 years produced a negative annual return and 54 were positive. That means that since 1950, markets have risen 74% of the time and fallen in only 26% of years. 2022...
