Managing your money is always important. For new graduates making the move from classroom to workplace it’s an essential skill. The three main priorities of financial adulthood are paying down debt, building up emergency savings, and saving for retirement. (For more on this, see the Bowen Report “Personal Finance Tips for College Graduates”: https://bowenasset.com/personal-finance-tips-for-college-graduates/) An Read more
First-Quarter Economic Growth, But Devil is in the Details
Is the economy still growing? We believe that the answer is still “yes” — but that growth is slowing and the details in the first quarter and April of 2019 reveal warning signs. The GDP received a boost from inventories, exports Gross domestic product (GDP) grew at an annualized rate of 3.2% in the first Read more
How ETFs Work: Issues and Advantages
Second of a two-part series In our first piece on exchange-traded funds (“What’s an ETF? And Why Isn’t It a Mutual Fund?”) — based on Bowen Asset Management’s visit to the “Inside ETFs” conference in Hollywood, Fla., in February — we looked at basic definitions of ETFs and contrasted them with the more widely understood Read more
What’s an ETF? And Why Isn’t It a Mutual Fund?
In February, Bowen Asset Management attended the annual “Inside ETFs” conference in Hollywood, Fla. The four-day gathering, which Bloomberg called “the marquee event for exchange-traded funds,” featured appearances by 200 speakers — including Nobel laureate economist Robert Shiller, former NFL quarterback Joe Montana, political strategists and news analysts Michael Steele and Donna Brazile, and author Read more
Mixed Messages in Fourth Quarter Economic Trends
Delayed by the partial government shutdown that began shortly before Christmas, and then swiftly overtaken by the frenetic pace of events of a turbulent 2019, the fourth quarter economic report offered a hazy picture, with uncertainty being all that seemed to be certain. So far in 2019, the United States economy remains generally solid, but Read more
Lithium Batteries and Deflated Basketballs: Emerald’s Annual Groundhog Day Investment Forum
In February 2019, the Bowen Asset Management team attended the 26th Annual Groundhog Day Investment Forum in Philadelphia presented by the Lancaster County-based Emerald Advisers, Inc. As with Emerald’s annual Las Vegas conference, the day-long event offered intriguing and informative panel discussions, featuring Emerald’s talented and insightful analysts and managers, as well as top investment Read more