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What is an Expense Ratio and Why is it Important to an Investor?
Expense ratios can be confusing. What are they? What do they reveal about a fund? Why should you, as an investor, care about any of this? Understanding expense ratios is important if you have...
Making Sure Your Finances are the First Priority: What a Fiduciary Offers You
Here at Monument, we avoid identifying ourselves with cookie cutter industry terminology. We prefer to keep things real. In an industry largely characterized by a lack of corporate accountability...
Vlog: The Economic Cycle – How it Works in Everyday Language
A lot of people ask how our MONCON Recession Plan works. I’m going to refrain from discussing the exact data it looks at, but in general, it’s data that are representing the economic cycle....
Get Them Straight – Hedge Funds, Pension Funds and Your Funds
I’ve been working in wealth management for over two decades now. It’s changed a lot, mostly for the better, but the one thing that has remained consistent is investor behavior. One of the most...
Vlog: Inversion Aversion
I received a lot of great feedback and encouragement on yesterday’s video, and wanted to further dive into two questions that have come up: What did I mean by “distortion”? Why does a yield curve...
Vlog: The Yield Curve Distortion
What is the Yield Curve Distortion? Putting things into perspective…There are trillions of dollars of debt that are exposed to negative interest rates. (For example, this means, when you give the...