What can we learn from the Olympic Athletes?
Goals / Leadership / Positive Mental Attitude / Private Equity / Start-ups / Success / Wealth

What can we learn from the Olympic Athletes?

It always amazes me; the psychology of sports. As I wrote in June 2013: I am fully aware of the power of the mind when it relates to not just sports, but business…and ultimately success and failure. How can Olympic records, as they relate to time, distance, and precision, be constantly broken year after year? … Continue reading

Have you kept your powder dry?
Capital / Investing / Markets / Private Equity / Stocks / US Markets

Have you kept your powder dry?

If you have followed our two years’ worth of predictions (read Grace Century press release in 2014 and Grace Century press release 2013), you have profited well and were prepared for the recent pull back in the markets. Any time a market, any market, moves more than 8% in a year to the upside it is exceptional. … Continue reading

Two weeks in—how to make your 2014 New Year’s Resolutions stick
Family Loans / Financial / Goals / Private Equity / Saving for retirement / Wealth

Two weeks in—how to make your 2014 New Year’s Resolutions stick

I thought I’d wait a couple of weeks to make sure that this article was relevant. We have all made our New Year’s resolutions of self improvement in life, work, love, and finance. With a high probability, these self-imposed goals are a distant memory or on “tomorrow we start” to do list. So how can … Continue reading

Sometimes, you don’t need a crystal ball
Financial / Investing / Private Equity / Saving for retirement / US Government / US Markets / Wealth

Sometimes, you don’t need a crystal ball

As investors and professionals alike argue when the Fed will finally taper their bond-buy program, the culprit of artificially low-interest rates, please understand that the market waits for no one. Even though the Fed hasn’t budged on their message or actions, the market has begun to move in anticipation of the inevitable. In the summer … Continue reading

Pillars of Society crumbling…and it comes down to Turkey (the bird)
Markets / Private Equity / US Government / US Markets

Pillars of Society crumbling…and it comes down to Turkey (the bird)

I have wanted for some time to write about what I see as our foundations, and not just in the U.S., crumbling before our eyes. I always thought it was too far out there…too religious…too judgmental…”just too something!” As with any great society, the Americans believe that things will stay the same forever and they … Continue reading