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It will soon be the 10-year anniversary of when, in early October 2007, the S&P 500 Index hit what was its highest point before losing more than half its value over the next year and a half during the global financial crisis.

Whether you call Houston and its surroundings home, or you’ve never been there before, it’s hard to watch the unfolding news coming out of Texas and not feel a shared anguish at the state-wide devastation being wrought by Hurricane Harvey.

Whether it’s sudden and unexpected or after an already lengthy ordeal, there’s nothing that can prepare you for losing your spouse. Grief and mourning affect each of us uniquely, but all widows and widowers share a painful dilemma: on the one hand, the world seems to demand rapid response to a barrage of critical questions – financial and otherwise.

By Bruce A. Gray, CPA, CGMA

If you enjoy fine literature, we recommend all of Warren Buffett’s annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder letters, dating back to 1965. While financial reports are rarely the stuff from which dreams are made, Buffett’s way with words never ceases to impress. His most recent 2016 letter was no exception, including this powerful insight about market downturns:

by Ben Carlson

Welcome to our final installment in Desmond Wealth Management’s Evidence-Based Investment Insights: Bringing the Evidence Home. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading our series as much as we’ve enjoyed sharing it with you. Here are the key take-home messages from each installment:

Welcome to the next installment in our series of Desmond Wealth Management’s Evidence-Based Investment Insights: Behavioral Biases – What Makes Your Brain Trick?

Welcome to the next installment in our series of Desmond Wealth Management’s Evidence-Based Investment Insights: The Human Factor in Evidence-Based Investing.

How many new ways are there for the same old market forecasters to twist a timeless truth: None of us has any idea what the markets will do next.

Consider the following quote from a recent Wall Street Journal article entitled, “Global Stocks Post Strongest First Half in Years, Worrying Investors.”