

January Market Risk Update
Dear Clients & Friends, Time for our monthly market risk update. A few notes before we begin: first, although we have been talking about...

Matthew Ramer
Jan 12, 2018


Cash and Cars
Dear Clients & Friends, Two notes: One is very important, and the other is too. Why is there extra cash in my portfolio? In the last...

Matthew Ramer
Jan 5, 2018


December Market Risk Update
Dear Clients & Friends, It’s time for our monthly Market Risk update. Before we get to the content, I wanted to briefly update everyone...

Matthew Ramer
Dec 15, 2017


November Market Risk Update
Dear Clients & Friends, Before we begin, in the spirit of Veterans Day, let us honor all those who have served our country, and all those...

Matthew Ramer
Nov 10, 2017


October Market Risk Update
Dear Clients & Friends, Its time again for our monthly market risk update, for which we turn to our good friend Brad McMillan, author of...

Matthew Ramer
Oct 20, 2017


A Really Cool (but scary) Statistic
Dear Clients & Friends, This weekend’s reading will be brief because several of our staff and I are attending a conference in San Diego....

Matthew Ramer
Oct 14, 2017


Dow 1 MILLION!
Dear Clients and Friends, For this weekend’s reading, I wanted to discuss very briefly the current market conditions, most notably the...

Matthew Ramer
Sep 22, 2017


Market Risk August 2017
Dear Clients & Friends, It’s time for our monthly update on prevailing economic and investment market related risks. In most months we...

Matthew Ramer
Aug 18, 2017


Living Trusts 101
Dear Clients and Friends, This weekend’s reading is short and sweet, but it answers a very common question and hopefully resolves a...

Matthew Ramer
Jul 14, 2017


May Market Risk Update
Dear Clients & Friends, This weekend, we return to our monthly risk update from the Independent Advisor. If you’ve read this column for...

Matthew Ramer
Jun 2, 2017


April Market Risk Update
Dear Clients and Friends, Though we usually do not have time to craft many creative weekend essays during the depths of tax season, we...

Matthew Ramer
Apr 14, 2017


Laurence Fink 2017 Letter to CEOs
"...shared economic security can only be achieved through a long-term approach by investors, companies and policymakers." -Laurence Fink...

Matthew Ramer
Mar 26, 2017


Important Tax "Stuff"
For this weekend reading, we are going ultra-important, albeit knowingly ultra-boring. Dear clients and friends, For this weekend...

Matthew Ramer
Feb 24, 2017


February Market Risk Update
As I contemplate risk in consideration of the measures that we like to use, I find myself particularly frustrated this month… Dear...

Matthew Ramer
Feb 17, 2017


Global Trade
Trump’s world: to Trade or Not to Trade Dear Clients and Friends, As we alluded to last week, today we write about President Trump’s...

Matthew Ramer
Feb 4, 2017


SEC reforms Money Market Funds
Q&A on the recent new legislation on money market funds Dear Clients and Friends, Over the last several weeks, the news has been...

Matthew Ramer
Oct 14, 2016


Recession 2017
This weekend’s reading is likely to be among the most important of these letters we write for the remainder of 2016. Most of you will...

Matthew Ramer
May 30, 2016


Laurence Fink Letter 2016
February 5, 2016 In our MORWM morning briefing we often discuss the obsession corporate America and the investing public has with short...

Matthew Ramer
Feb 5, 2016
