INSIGHTS

Every investor wants certainty. Where markets are headed, what interest rates will do next, whether stocks will continue rallying or move into a correction. Investors spend enormous amounts of time searching for forecasts, signals, and predictions that can provide clarity about what comes next. The reality is simple: Not retail investors. Not advisors. Not institutional money managers. Even the most experienced investors operate with incomplete information and uncertainty. Ma

1968 was the worst possible time to retire. Not because stocks crashed overnight. Not because one catastrophic event wiped out a generation of savers. But because inflation showed up — and didn’t leave. That’s the part most people get wrong. They think the big risk is a crash, a sudden drawdown, something obvious. It’s not. The real risk is slow. It grinds. It sits there year after year, quietly destroying your purchasing power while your portfolio looks “fine” on the surface