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Katerina Wiese Featured in the Midlands Business Journal
The Midlands Business Journal featured our own Katerina Wiese, Vice President & CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM professional in a recent article, “Advisers Lend Retirement Investment Update.” She was asked to comment on recent trends in retirement investing and explain why it’s important to invest. Here’s the article, reprinted with permission of the Midlands Business Journal: Read
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AFIA Named One of Top Financial Advisors in Omaha for 2021-2022
America First Investment Advisors has been named one of the “Top 9 Best Financial Advisors in Omaha for 2021-2022” by AdvisoryHQ, an unbiased third-party research organization. “It’s nice to be recognized again,” said Eric Ball, CEO of America First. “AdvisoryHQ noted that we keep things simple and give straightforward advice. “As an example, they highlighted
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Maybe It’s Not as Easy as it Looks
Well, the day has finally come: It’s now easy to make money in the market. All you have to do is buy what’s been going up. Why didn’t anyone see this before? Tech stocks are higher, digital currencies like Bitcoin are jumping, and IPO’s are rocketing as generous company founders can’t wait to share their
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The Soufflé & The Sledgehammer
Tesla is not a stock we own, but a look at recent news shows just how different our investment approach is from that of speculators and fans of indexing. Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently warned employees that if the electric-vehicle maker doesn’t meet its operating goals, the stock could be “crushed like a souffle under
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Why You Won’t See Us on CNBC
The aim of a rational investment strategy is to compound returns in order to build or preserve wealth. No one disagrees with that statement. Yet, when we look at CNBC and the financial media, we see investment advice that is anything but rational. What Others Do From what we see on CNBC, the usual approach
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Index Committee: Buy High, Sell Low
The Index Committee decides which companies should be in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 Index. Members of the Committee know a lot about the companies they decide to include. One thing they don’t know, and don’t care to know, is what companies are worth. For investors who want to buy low