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Corrections are part of Normal Markets
“The game of speculation is the most uniformly fascinating game in the world. But it is not a game for the stupid, the mentally lazy,...
James Tharin, CFA
Apr 8, 20183 min read
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Trying to Reason with a Hurricane Season
www.emeraldam.com The updated map shows the latest foretasted track of Hurricane Irma and all active tropical tracks and models...
James Tharin, CFA
Sep 5, 20171 min read
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Do You Really Want to Sell This Market?
Even after the recent political news, stocks appear to be very close to all-time highs and trading in an established long term channel....
James Tharin, CFA
May 19, 20172 min read
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Is the Stock Market Really Overvalued?
With the strong bull run in stock prices since November, we have been reading more from the perma-bear community about how overvalued the...
James Tharin, CFA
Feb 24, 20174 min read
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Building a Better Bond Portfolio
A well constructed bond portfolio can stand-alone as a total portfolio or as part of a broader asset allocation strategy. There are many...
James Tharin, CFA
Oct 18, 20163 min read
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What You Don't Know about Investing
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. -Mark Twain I recently got...
James Tharin, CFA
Jun 22, 20162 min read
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First Under Statement of 2016 - January was Rough!
Current Outlook If 2015 was flat and boring for investors, then 2016 has ushered in an unwelcome change to volatility and losses. We...
James Tharin, CFA
Feb 4, 20162 min read
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What to do if you see a Bear
It’s been well publicized that the month of January 2016 was not the worst January in history for US equities - it was the second worst. ...
James Tharin, CFA
Feb 4, 20163 min read
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Buy Low Sell High
At Emerald Asset Management we believe that most investors would avoid many investing pitfalls if they would follow three primary rules. ...
James Tharin, CFA
Jan 4, 20161 min read
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It Wasn't Raining When Noah Built His Ark
I can’t remember when I first heard the phrase that is the title of this article. But I’m fairly certain it’s been around for a while...
James Tharin, CFA
Nov 18, 20153 min read
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Lessons from the 10th Hole
I started my career on The Street of Dreams in October of 1991 as a stock broker with one of those many great regional brokerage firms...
James Tharin, CFA
Oct 28, 20152 min read
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A Primer on Fixed Income Investing
Since a bond is by definition a loan to an entity such as a government (U.S., agency or foreign), a corporation or a municipality,...
James Tharin, CFA
Jul 16, 20151 min read
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The Art of Risk Management
Every good stock investor that I have ever met has some methodical, well thought out system for risk management that he or she can...
James B. Tharin, CFA
Jul 1, 20152 min read
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How to Invest if You Think Stocks are Expensive & Interest Rates are Low
It’s taken me awhile to get here but I do believe that the Great Recession caused by the housing crisis of 2007 - 2009 is behind us and a...
James B. Tharin, CFA
Jun 16, 20154 min read
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Rising Dividends – A Strategy for Income or Growth
If you think dividends are boring, think again. According to Stocks for the Long Run, by Jeremy Siegel, about two thirds of the real...
James B. Tharin, CFA
Jun 9, 20153 min read
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Playing the Odds
by James B. Tharin, CFA Over the years we’ve learned that there is no silver bullet to investing. If you are in this business long...

James Tharin, CFA
Apr 2, 20152 min read
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