The Weekly Insight: Can 2026 Continue the Trend? Happy Holidays! It’s shocking to realize that 2025 is almost behind us. We suppose they’re right when it’s said that the years fly by more quickly as you age! Barring whatever may happen in [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Wind Chill For our clients in Iowa, winter has hit like a freight train. It started the weekend after Thanksgiving (10+ inches of snow in Des Moines in November was a record) and has continued since. More snow [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Eyes on the Bond Market So much ink is spilled each week (including in these pages) on the equity markets. And for good reason. The strength – or weakness – of the equity markets can have a significant impact [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Feeling Charitable? It is hard to believe it is already December! What a year it has been. In many ways, it seems like it has all gone so quickly. In others? Can you believe it has only been seven months since [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – Age-Old Investment Advice There have been countless books written, articles posted, and speeches made in the last one hundred years about the “rules” investors should live by. Whether it is Vanguard’s John Bog [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – The Two Economies We experienced a choppy market as equities saw a nice pop generated by the end of the government shutdown followed by the market coming to grips with a lower likelihood of a December rate cut [...]

The Weekly Insight Podcast – What's Going On? We were sitting at our desk on Friday when a link was forwarded over to us. It sent us to the homepage of news aggregator Drudge Report and featured this headline: Oof. Worst November since 20 [...]