Dave S. Gilreath, CFP

Stock performance is broadening, creating more balanced equity opportunities for investors in a market fixated on huge tech companies.

Explore effective income investing strategies, including high-yield ETFs and alternative assets, to enhance retirement income amid declining interest rates.

Investors should explore strategies for retirement planning by balancing big tech stocks with undervalued sectors, aiming for growth while managing risk.

The U.S. market is still the best place to invest

Like common stocks, preferred stocks represent minute slices of company ownership, as they’re a form of equity. But like bonds, they’re a fixed-income security that pays yield, in the form of dividends.

Discover strategies for investing during a volatile market, focusing on long-term gains while avoiding common pitfalls and emotional trading mistakes.

Buybacks are often illogically equated with dividends — the direct distribution of profits to shareholders in cash on a periodic basis at the discretion of corporate boards.

Buybacks are often illogically equated with dividends—the direct distribution of profits to shareholders in cash on a periodic basis at the discretion of corporate boards.

Looking for a place to weather the economic storm? Read on

For most investors, energy is a challenging stock investment to get their heads around.

Exports are projected to grow tremendously long-term

For most investors, energy is a challenging stock investment to get their heads around.

What happens with future rate cuts will go a long way toward determining what happens in the stock market

There’s a tasty stock market stew simmering into 2025.

The September rate cut signals the beginning of a cutting cycle that’s likely to bring down most interest rates in the U.S. economy.

POTUS election outcomes don’t typically affect stocks long term, but their uncertainty often has short term impacts.

Remarkably, the bull market has kept running strong amid sustained high rates.

REITs are a great way to invest in real estate without the hassle of managing properties.

Here are nine reasons the bulls will keep running.

Significant wealth from the stock market has been accumulated by people who don’t do anything most of the time.

Understanding market swings can help your portfolio

So how can inflation be decreasing amid economic growth and low unemployment, which should be pushing it the other way? The answer is rising economic productivity.

When rising productivity coincides with a growing labor force, productivity’s benefits for economic growth are amplified.

Believing in global diversification, legions of individual investors owning international funds have substantial exposure to chinese stocks, wittingly or not.

Investors looking for stocks poised to perform well in 2024 might want to consider industrials — companies that make stuff that manufacturers use to make stuff ultimately purchased by commercial and retail customers.

In recent years, negative returns from Chinese markets have turned off many professional investors. Yet, believing in global diversification, legions of individual investors owning international funds have substantial exposure to Chinese stocks.

What goes up, must come down.

There are hard ways and easy ways to invest in real estate.