by Buddy Broome | May 31, 2017 | Blog
One thing that I hear constantly in investing circles, even from some people with investing education, is that you cannot get above a certain return, typically around 4%, without the investment being risky or [cue the gasp] illegal. This statement is often followed up...
by Buddy Broome | May 10, 2017 | 2017, Blog, Blog
Education is imperative in any endeavor. How would you feel if you were to have a heart transplant surgery and you found out that the person who was performing the surgery never studied anything about medicine, surgeries, or heart transplants? Would that give you a...
by Buddy Broome | Jan 30, 2017 | Blog, Blog, Uncategorized
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world." - Archimedes Last week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average broke the unprecedented 20,000 point barrier. To give some historical perspective, in January of 1987, the Down...
by Buddy Broome | Jan 24, 2017 | Blog, Challenge
What Society Tells Us about Yields One concept that I hear a lot among investors and non-investors alike is the belief that they cannot set their own yield (aka return on investment). Rather, society has accustomed us to believe that the yield is set by banks,...
by Buddy Broome | Jan 2, 2017 | Blog
Have you ever had a deal where you were "light" the funds to close ("light" can mean that you don't have the funds or that you simply did not want to cut a check;-)? Here is one tool that I have used in the past to help my parents close a deal that solved this...
by Buddy Broome | Dec 20, 2016 | Blog, Challenge, Uncategorized
Our goal as investors is to get money to work for us rather than the other way around. When we have money work for us, the principles of investing are able to turn a seemingly small amount of money into a huge amount of money with sometimes little effort on our...