by Gould Asset Management | Aug 2, 2022 | Claremont Courier, Uncategorized
by Don Gould Stocks worldwide have declined steadily from their all-time highs reached at the start of 2022. The benchmark S&P 500 US stock index recently exceeded the 20% decline from peak that (arbitrarily) defines a bear market. Adding to investor woes, bonds...
by Gould Asset Management | Dec 10, 2021 | Claremont Courier, Uncategorized
by Don Gould Last week in Part One of this two-part series, I focused on how to increase the tax benefit of your charitable donations, enabling you to give more to charity at the same net cost. In this Part Two, I will review three other strategies for tax-smart...
by Gould Asset Management | Dec 3, 2021 | Claremont Courier, Uncategorized
by Don Gould “Give us your clunker and save on taxes!” “Call your PBS station right now and make a tax-deductible donation to support public television!” By now, it has been well pounded into our brains that donations to qualified charities are tax-deductible in the...
by Gould Asset Management | Aug 20, 2021 | Claremont Courier, Uncategorized
by Don Gould From an early age we are admonished, “don’t keep all your eggs in one basket,” especially where investments are concerned. A diversified investment portfolio holds many assets rather than just one or a few, greatly reducing the chances that all your eggs...
by Gould Asset Management | May 28, 2021 | Claremont Courier, Uncategorized
by Don Gould In this two-part article, I suggest that if you could only watch one economic indicator, it should be the interest rate on the 10-year US Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities, or TIPS for short. The TIPS bond pays a return that is indexed to inflation....
by Gould Asset Management | May 21, 2021 | Claremont Courier, Uncategorized
by Don Gould The media bombards us daily with economic and financial statistics. Housing starts were up. Jobless claims were down. Consumer confidence is fluctuating. The purchasing managers index was flat. And so on. It’s enough to make your head spin. But there is a...
