The Elephant
September 6, 2024 Blind to the Elephant We can be uncomfortable facing reality and our own demons. Sometimes this can emanate from...
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Serving Others
July 23, 2024 “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” -Aesop “When you like a flower, you pick it, when you love a...
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The Belief That You are in Control is an Illusion
June 26, 2024 “We need to believe we live in a predictable, controllable world, so we turn to authoritative-sounding people who promise...
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Feeling Lost in the Insurance Maze? A Fiduciary Advisor May Be Able to Help You
May 23, 2024 Introduction: Have you ever felt overwhelmed by the complex jargon and hidden fees of insurance products? I know I have....
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Investing is More Art than Science
April 25, 2024 “There are two kinds of forecasters: those who don’t know, and those who don’t know they don’t know.” - John Kenneth...
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Lopsided Relationships
April 10, 2024 Lopsided Relationships: As a follow up to August Wealth’s March Commentary, it is worth digging into the private equity...
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Why Do We Enable Bad Behavior?
March 20, 2024 If you are a regular reader of these pages, or you know me well, you probably understand one of my most fervent beliefs is...
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An Ever Changing World
February 22, 2024 Whether we like it or not the world is changing. Often, we don’t notice change. Many of us skip along the surface of...
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Happy 2024!
January 30, 2024 Most other market prognosticators have released their views and/or opinions for 2024 at this point. So where is August...
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Expanding the Universe
December 1, 2023 “The universe is only as large as our perception of it. When we cultivate our awareness, we are expanding the...
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Rise Above the Clouds
November 1, 2023 How do we stay positive in a world like this? War The environment Race relations Crime Politics It may seem overwhelming...
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No Pain, No Gain
October 6, 2023 I recently spoke in a personal capacity (not as a representative of August Wealth) at the Macro Intelligence 2 Partners...
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Navigating the AI World
September 6, 2023 “All of humanity’s problems, stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” - Blaise Pascal Artificial...
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We want safety, we want certainty, and we want to know that we are always going to be okay!
August 8, 2023 Most of us, most of the time, are biased by the fear of losing what we have. Then, when everyone else is seemingly making...
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The August Wealth Method
July 13, 2023 It is worth re-exploring and explaining our methodical approach to markets in various ways to better articulate our...
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You Don't Know What You Don't Know
June 22, 2023 Cameron Crise, Bloomberg’s Macro Man, wrote a piece a couple of weeks ago that bears consideration. Even if we know what is...
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Spring Alterations
June 1, 2023 In the portfolios, I have decided to sell what we call our innovation basket of companies. We first identified this theme...
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Changing the Game
May 24, 2023 Artificial Intelligence is changing the game AI is certainly changing the world rapidly. But artificial intelligence is not...
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Value Investing
May 2, 2023 “It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of...
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The Mindset
April 4, 2023 Tick, Tick, Tick...what is our most precious commodity? I suggest that time is our most precious commodity. It is so...
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BANKruptcy
March 16, 2023 Market Conditions We are seeing unprecedented moves in fixed income driven by the collapse in a few regional banks. The US...
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Enlightenment
March 8, 2023 “Enlightenment is: Absolute Cooperation with the Inevitable” Anthony de Mello Why do I contemplate my own mortality often?...
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Finding the Right Financial Advisor
January 23, 2023 How to find a financial advisor to help you and your family “The strongest of all warriors are these two; time and...
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2023 Observations and Outlook
January 11, 2023 Themes of 2022: Decreased equity weightings across all portfolios in January of 2022 and increased cash and short...
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