Monthly Newsletter for the Long-Term Investor
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2025 April 
Issue #157
“Since the end of World War II the longest it has ever taken an investor to recover an original investment in the stock market was the five-year, eight-month period from August 2000 through April 2006 (68 months).”
―Jeremy Siegel
Greetings,
 
Welcome to this month's client newsletter for the goal-focused, long-term, equity investor.
If you want to add money to your IRA feel free to call. Please do so before the 15th!
 
April 2025
2 pages
The Market is Inviting You to Make the Big Mistake
In this month’s edition Nick discusses the utter disconnectedness between rational long-term investment policy and current events – and what a rare opportunity today’s chaos presents to the goal-focused, plan-driven investor.
 
And, oh, never make the big mistake.
BOOK OF THE MONTH

Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence by Charles Ellis

 

The best book on the history of Capital Group. Find out what makes American Funds so special.

Emerging markets investing: Four decades of wisdom
Youtube - Mar 26, 2025 - 33 minutes
Capital Group’s Mike Gitlin interviews pioneering emerging markets investor Victor Kohn as he retires after four decades in the business. Kohn, who helped manage the world's first emerging markets equity fund launched in 1986, discusses how the global investment landscape has changed, his early days as an analyst covering South America, and why he continues to hold a positive outlook on China — the world’s largest emerging market economy.

 

20 March 2025

30 minutes

Are tariffs a threat to the U.S. economy?
As tariff talk roils the financial markets, Capital Group economist Jared Franz and investment director David Polak discuss how protectionist trade policies could affect the outlook for the U.S. economy. Will rising policy uncertainty trip up an otherwise healthy economic environment?
MONEY QUIZ #14
On average, the market drops -X%, Y times per year.
  1. -1% 3 times per year. 
  2. -5% 4 times per year, and -15% once per year. 
  3. -5% once per year, and -10% 3 times per year.
  4. -5% two times per year, and -10% once every 18 months.

  5. -10% 2 times per year.
  6. -12% once per year, and -5% twice a year.

Answer = #4. -5% two times per year, and -10% once every 18 months.

MONEY MEMES AND A LITTLE HUMOR

Michael Paulding Thomas

Financial Advisor, Registered Representative, Securities Principal. Series 6, 26, 63, 65, Life

 

Since 1989 I’ve been helping families make smart choices about building a guaranteed income during retirement.

Retirement Planning • IRAs • 401k's • Rollovers • Mutual Funds • Variable Annuities • College Planning • Term Life Insurance • Living Trusts

Securities offered through Innovation Partners, LLC. Member FINRA/SIPC


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