Michael C. Stalker

2014 Third Quarter Report1

If MCS clients were one large portfolio, the year-to-date return through September 30th was 6.42%. Individual client returns ranged between 3.09% and 11.50%. The client with the lowest return was negatively impacted by exposure to European stocks and had fewer bonds overall. The client with the h ighest returns had a significant portion of zero […]

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2013 Performance Report and Investment Outlook1

Year to date through September 30 2013, aggregate MCS client assets gained 2.41%. Stocks represented by the S&P 500 index turned in a very strong performance of 19.79%. Auxier advised stock portfolios gained 14.5% for the period. Auxier portfolios include domestic stocks, international stocks and cash which must be considered when comparing Auxier with the

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Exit Plan

A client’s business was losing about $20,000 a month, his accountant was telling him to get rid of it asap, yet he was having trouble finding a buyer. We helped him find a way out.

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Your Money’s Worth

Who do you trust these days? Probably not business. The 2009 Edelman Trust Barometer showed that those in the U.S. most willing to “trust business to do what is right’” dropped from 58 percent to 38 percent, a record low. Yes, there is law enforcement and a judicial system if someone doesn’t live up to

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From Pain to Gain

The expectation of economic recovery has investors breathing a sigh of relief, and the stock market (S&P 500) has rebounded 19 percent over the first three quarters of this year. Yet from an economist’s viewpoint, recovery means only that the economy has stopped contracting and is now growing, no matter how anemic the growth. It

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