October 29th, 2015
“In investing, what is comfortable is rarely profitable.” -Robert Arnott (investor, editor, and writer) The quarter ended September 30, 2015 evidenced significantly greater volatility and the first “correction” (a decline of 10% or greater) since 2011. Both the volatility and correction were overdue as we suggested in both our last quarterly letter and our web […]
Read more > August 6th, 2015
Robert D. Rosenthal and Philip W. Malakoff discuss First Long Island’s perspective on some current macro-economic factors, questions facing many investors and how FLI is positioning clients for the rest of 2015 and beyond in an hour-long web seminar.
Read more > July 30th, 2015
“An argument is made that there are just too many question marks about the near future; wouldn’t it be better to wait until things clear up a bit? You know the prose: ‘Maintain buying reserves until current uncertainties are resolved,’ etc. Before reaching for that crutch, face up to two unpleasant facts: The future is […]
Read more > 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.
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