April 27th, 2015
“One thing we have lost, that we had in the past, is a sense of progress, that things are getting better. There is a sense of volatility, but not of progress.” Daniel Kahneman (Winner of the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences) The first quarter ended with a whoosh of volatility reflected in a […]
Read more > February 5th, 2015
Robert D. Rosenthal discusses First Long Island’s perspective on the factors concerning investors today and how FLI thinks the longer-term investor should approach 2015 in a web seminar.
Read more > January 26th, 2015
This report on the Fourth Quarter will be brief as, by now, you should have received our annual thought piece: The Longer-Term Investor – 2015 and Beyond. It contains our view of the future and describes many aspects of the investment landscape confronting the longer-term investor, some of whom might be thinking about evacuating from […]
Read more > January 12th, 2015
“Wars are not won by evacuations.” – Winston Churchill As we enter the New Year, many investors are facing a fog of investment war caused by their fear of the recent record levels of the equity markets, the latest spike in volatility, and an increasing uncertainty of how to face the future. Investing is a […]
Read more > October 31st, 2014
States and an international coalition commenced an air campaign against an extreme Muslim self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria. If that was not enough, the first cases of Ebola reached our shores. This puzzling (and at times terrifying) picture has left no safe haven-where one can earn a return after inflation and taxes without taking […]
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