What Has The Pandemic Taught You?
Submitted by Moneywatch Advisors on June 22nd, 2020Below are a few random thoughts from my own experience interspersed with some from friends. What about you?
Below are a few random thoughts from my own experience interspersed with some from friends. What about you?
Enjoy this month’s edition that features a notice of a fund change and a review of the market.
The Financial Times reported last week that online stock brokerages, like E-Trade, hit a record number of account sign-ups in March and April. Rich Repetto, senior analyst at Sandler O’Neill (investment banking firm) commented that the stay-at-home mandate plus no live sporting events for bettors to wager on motivated many to trade stocks online. Whoa! Think about that for a minute. These people were so starved to bet on something, they decided to bet on stocks!
Last year I wrote what I called a “practice” graduation letter to my daughter. Now that she has officially graduated, sans in-person commencement, I reviewed what I wrote and decided the advice is still pertinent. Here goes: