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Market Nosedives and Consumer Missteps
I probably don’t need to spend time painting a vivid macroeconomic picture unless you’ve recently been doing your best impression of an ostrich. So, let me briefly spell it out: Not since Richard Nixon was in the Oval Office have we had a year in which the stock market had a worse six-month start.1 If you’re not up on your
The Current State of SPACs
Back in 2020, special purpose acquisition companies, known as SPACs and sometimes referred to as blank-check companies, gained newfound fame among investors. SPACs are investment vehicles that undergo an initial public offering (IPO) to raise capital for the purpose of later identifying a private company and forming a merger agreement to take the company public. As SPAC IPOs began to
Parents’ Lessons in Saving and Spending
By: Meir Statman, Ph.D. Consultant to Avantis Investors “Spend money, but don’t waste it,” my mother said. I learned my first lessons about saving and spending from my parents, listening to their words and watching their behavior. I recall going with my mother to a bookstore to buy the textbooks for 4th or 5th grade. When the bookstore’s owner totaled
Trading Places: The Blip on the Radar That Can Cost Index Fund Investors
This article was provided by Avantis Investors and we have been given permission to share this information with our clients and potential clients. While investors continue to grapple with market turbulence, many may have missed that U.S. stocks recorded their highest trading volume of the past year on Friday, June 24. On this day alone, investors exchanged almost 20 billion
Does Spending Imply Wealth?
By: Hal Hershfield, Ph.D. Consultant to Avantis Investors Imagine a person who is flashy in the way they spend their money — their cars, their clothes and their meals. And now, think of someone who is a bit different — someone who orders a McDonald’s breakfast every day and never spends more than $5. What meaning do you attach to
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