By Marc Usem, MBA

By Seth Meisler, CFA, CPA/PFS, CFP®

By Steven Schoenberger, JD

Did you know you have the option to schedule meetings with your advisor on the affiancefinancial.com website? With the implementation of online scheduling tool “Calendly”, we made it possible. Calendly allows you to schedule your next meeting in just a few clicks – no phone tag, no email chains, no problem.

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Seth Meisler, CFA, CPA, CFP® and Marc Usem, MBA give their analysis of what's going on in the market.

On Wednesday, December 7, Mark Lanterman, Chief Technology Officer at Computer Forensic Services, joined us for a night of Cybersecurity education at the Hopkins Center for the Arts. Mark showed us just how easy it is to buy stolen credit cards and passports, and reminded us all of the importance of understanding the relationship between convenience and security. Like your favorite horror movie, it was just as terrifying as it was entertaining. Let’s go over some of the things we learned.

by Steven Schoenberger, JD

At Affiance Financial, being your financial planner is more than just investment strategies and advisor meetings. For us, it includes making you more knowledgeable about finances so you can make informed decisions with your advisor, communicating what’s going on in the world and how it could affect your portfolios, and sharing financial tips to help you live your best life.

by Marc Usem

We are often asked to explain why certain asset prices increase and others decrease. Since the presidential election, these questions have only become more frequent. So, why did prices of stocks go up following the presidential election? The simplest explanation was given by famed investor Howard Marks, who stated that the reason that stocks go up is that there are more buyers than sellers. Likewise, asset prices decrease when there are more sellers than buyers. While this answer may seem flippant, the basic relationship of supply and demand actually does a better job explaining price movement than the reasoning by many journalists who ascribe a myriad of other factors.