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Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Featuring Albinoni, Purcell, Bach, Corelli, Handel and Vivaldi

January 25, 2015 By Lowell Herr

Are you looking for an album filled with five star recordings?  Then look no further than this fine CD by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.  Here is one review I pulled from an Amazon listener. “I have found that the performance style of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (OCO) typically

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Classical Music, Music

Retirement Planning Mistake #11

January 22, 2015 By Lowell Herr

Although alluded to in this “mistake series,” an emphasis, or special attention needs to be given to portfolio volatility or risk management.  Even if we are tracking portfolio risk as identified by either the Information Ratio (IR), Sortino Ratio (SR) and/or Retirement Ratio (RR), we need to focus on protecting

Filed Under: Beginning Investors, Critical Material, Retirement Planning Tagged With: Critical Material, Retirement Planning

Back Testing Issues: Remain Skeptical of Results

January 12, 2015 By Lowell Herr

Ernest Stokley was kind enough to spend time learning a new software language in order to run back-tests on ETFs used to populate ITA portfolios.  There is an abundance of noise or uncertainty when analyzing data for back-testing.  Here are a few examples. Actual Buy and Sell prices will not

Filed Under: Critical Material Tagged With: Critical Material

Ceremonial Music for Trumpet and Symphonic Organ: CD Recommendation for Week

January 4, 2015 By Lowell Herr

Ceremonial Music for Trumpet and Symphonic Organ is my CD recommendation for the week of January 4, 2015.  I’ve given five stars (top rating) to each cut from this CD.  Composers such as Mendelssohn, Purcell, Clarke, Hovhaness, Bach, Handel, and Charpentier are featured.  Here is a review that I can

Filed Under: Music Tagged With: Classical Music

Ten Investment Resolutions for 2015

January 1, 2015 By Lowell Herr

2015 Resolutions As we are turning the page into 2015, it is worthwhile establishing or reexamining our investment goals.  Many on the list are not new to readers of ITA Wealth Management.  So let’s begin. 1.  Lay out an investment plan if you have not already done so.  Write it

Filed Under: Beginning Investors Tagged With: Beginning Investors

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