I love to read. The books I am drawn to make me feel like an anthropologist from another planet studying the peculiarities of humans – how did they get to...

Recently, my colleague Tom Buhrmann wrote A Primer on Private Equity.  At a high level, he covers reasons why some investors should consider private equity investing, what the different types of private equity are, and private equity structures.   

Yesterday’s news about new worldwide tariffs and the resulting impact on financial markets is going to scare a lot of people. Whether you are someone who looks at your portfolio every day, checks periodically, or hardly ever looks at all, it would not be unusual to have some sort of impulse to take action with your portfolio. The most drastic would be to “go to cash,” presumably re-entering the market “when things get better.” The issue is always that it will never feel like a good time to get back in. Think back to March 23, 2020…everyone was locked down in their homes, and the impact of COVID had only just begun. Yet despite the fact that people were still wearing masks and maintaining other COVID-related precautions a year + later, that day in March 2020 turned out to be a generational buying opportunity for stocks.