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What We Can Learn from History’s Greatest Investors

What do a mathematician, a value investor, and a trend follower have in common? Learn how Simons, Buffett, and Livermore approached investing, and what their strategies can teach us today.

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Why Successful Investors Focus on Risk Management, Not Forecasts

When markets turn volatile, it’s natural to look for answers. Is now the time to move to cash? Should I double down on stocks? Predictions can feel reassuring, but history has shown that even experts rarely get them right consistently.

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Roth IRAs: Why Tax-Free Growth Could Be Your Most Valuable Asset

Imagine building wealth for decades and never owing taxes on the growth. That’s the unique advantage of a Roth IRA, one of the most powerful tools for retirement planning. While most people naturally focus on how much they’re saving, it’s just as important to consider where those savings go.

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Seeing the Market Clearly: How Relative Strength Guides Smarter Investment Decisions

Strong performance isn’t always obvious at first glance. But with the right lens, you can see where trends are quietly taking shape. Relative strength helps investors do just that—by comparing performance across assets to uncover consistent momentum.

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Rethinking Diversification: Why Private Equity Deserves a Place in Your Portfolio

At Emerald Asset Management, we have long believed in the power of U.S. equities as the core engine of portfolio growth. Few markets in the world can match the resilience, innovation, and wealth-building capacity of American businesses. That conviction has not changed.

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Understanding Dividends: How They Can Fit into Your Investment Strategy

Tired of meager returns in a low-interest rate environment? Investing in dividend stocks could be a compelling strategy to earn passive income and capitalize on long-term market growth.


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Alternative Investments: Beyond the 60 / 40 Portfolio

At Emerald Asset Management, our primary focus is managing stock portfolios for our clients.  Our flagship strategy, called the Global Rising Dividend Strategy, is designed to generate returns through capital appreciation and dividend income.

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Stock Market Bottoms Don't Require Capitulation but it Sure Does Help

One of the advantages of getting older is experience and the wisdom that (supposedly) comes with it. I would say that over 30 years of playing 'The Greatest Game' would qualify me as an experienced investor.

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Hold Your Positions, it’s a Bull Market (duh)

As long term investors, which most of our clients are, the goal is to buy high quality equity investments and hold onto those investments until something changes with the company or until it is apparent that an existing bull market has come to in end. Its not possible,

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