When it comes to stereotypes, Millennials got em in spades. Needless to say, most of them aren’t very flattering. In fact, a little more than a year ago, The Wall Street Journal updated it’s stylebook to address their writers use of the word “Millennial”, admitting that it was becoming some kind of “snide shorthand.” I[…]
For those unfamiliar with what a mutual fund wholesaler is, allow me to provide a brief explanation. Asset management companies, who manufacture mutual funds and other investment related products, employ legions of wholesalers to go out in to their geographic territories to educate investment professionals, like me, in hopes that they will sell their products[…]
What’s your earliest memory? Mine is visiting my grandparents in New York. I must have been about four or five at the time. It’s all very hazy, but I vaguely remember rooms with those wooden paneled walls, eating Corn Flakes for breakfast, trying Juicy Fruit gum for the first time and these little animal stampers[…]
Last week, I wrote about inflation. Riveting stuff, I know. However, in the post I twice used the phrase, “When I was your age…”, a line that has been used by older generations the world over to express, often with disdain, how the times have changed. Then, it hit me like a double shot of[…]
If you haven’t heard or seen the words “tidying up”, “Marie Kondo” or “KonMari” then you must have been hiding under a rock for the past few weeks. On January 1st, Netflix released Marie Kondo’s show “Tidying Up.” She visits people’s homes and helps guide them in her method to tidying up. Now the internet[…]
During an interview with a reporter last week, I was asked what I thought was the easiest investment concept to explain. It was a fantastic question that momentarily put me on my heels. I knew there was no single right answer, but I began racing for one while I ran downstairs to grab a cup[…]
Immediate gratification is not a Millennial thing, it’s an everyone thing. No one likes to wait, which is why you can pay extra not to. Retailers offer next day shipping, amusement parks offer fast passes to cut the lines and don’t even get me started on instant coffee (if you can call it coffee). We’re[…]
A few years back, shortly after Hazel was born, my parents got divorced after 35 years of marriage. Over the weekend, I FaceTimed with my mother in Florida to walk through my childhood room and decide which sacred possessions from my past I’d like to have shipped to me as she has decided to say[…]
For most of 2018, I felt like we were finally getting out of The Great Recession’s lingering haze. For older members of my generation, it has been a solid seven year run of favorable enough conditions to grab onto something we can call our own. Whether that’s a steady job with benefits or a now[…]
It must have been my eighth trip to the New York Stock Exchange. Each time I step on to the floor, I close my eyes and try to imagine what it must have been like to get wrapped up in a typhoon of traders dashing across the exchange to fill their orders before the closing[…]