TABR News

This month’s headline is shameless plagiarism. When you read as much as I do, you get ideas from everywhere. In this case, it was a Fund Profile article in Barron’s on Rupal Bhansali, the portfolio manager for the Ariel International fund a couple of weeks ago. Bhansali successfully plays defense by first asking, before making […]

Steve Medland was published in California Business Journal, which writes and publishes insightful, in-depth, and captivating business articles on entrepreneurs, startups, and small businesses. In the article, Steve says: In October 2005, Lara and Roger Griffith bought a lottery ticket and won the equivalent of $3.6 million in today’s dollars. Roger worked as an information technology manager, […]

A little over two weeks ago, the S&P 500 closed at its lowest level of the year, at 3900, down over -18% from year-end. Other indexes, such as the S&P 600 (small caps), S&P 400 (mid caps), and the EFA (international), made higher lows that day, and the number of stocks making new lows diminished, […]

The saying goes “April showers bring May flowers.” It supposedly is a reminder that in the case of heavy rains in April (not in Southern California!), it can bring about pleasant things, in this case, beautiful flowers.  That would be a blessing to stock and bond investors, who may be feeling like they just went […]

Thank you to my friends, family, clients, and colleagues for supporting Spiraling Up: Discover Financial Serenity, Make Work Optional, and Live Happily in Retirement during launch week. My publisher notified me that Spiraling Up reached #1 on the Amazon Best Seller list in two categories, Wealth Management and Investing Portfolio Management.  I am very grateful for […]

              I was honored to be featured on the Author Hour Podcast this week to launch my new book, Spiraling Up: Discover Financial Serenity, Make Work Optional, and Live Happily in Retirement. You can listen to the entire interview on the Author Hour website or on iTunes.  

Bob Kargenian was quoted in Retirement Daily on TheStreet, in the article, “IRA Withdrawal & RMD… What Can be Converted to My Roth IRA?” In the article, a Retirement Daily reader asks “I retired in 2021 at age 71 and for 2022, my taxable income includes Social Security and distributions that I take out of […]

As Bob Kargenian mentioned in last month’s newsletter, I will write the TABR Capital Management newsletter about every four months going forward. In this month’s newsletter, I’m thrilled to introduce my new book, Spiraling Up: Discover Financial Serenity, Make Work Optional, and Live Happily in Retirement, which is being launched today. The best way to […]

Technical Analysis can be an inexact science. Charts, patterns, formations, indicators. And candidly, a lot of subjectivity. We’ve been using a quantitative approach to markets since the mid-1980s, where we take technical indicators and use them with sets of rules. This provides more discipline, and less emotion. One of the simplest things that investors can […]

With approximately 7 minutes left in the game last Sunday at SoFi Stadium, a 17-17 tie between my 49ers and the LA Rams, Jimmy Garoppolo and his offense had a chance to take the Niners to the Super Bowl for the 2nd time in 3 seasons. But, the offensive line failed to give him enough […]