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Secure Act 2.0 IRA Charitable Annuity

February 22, 2024 By Lowell Herr

Secure Act 2.0 IRA Charitable Annuity is a relative new addition to the basic IRA program.  I’m providing several links for interested readers in this one-time charitable contribution of $53,000.  The idea is the following.  An individual is permitted to make a one-time contribution of $53,000 (will likely be increased next year) to a qualifying […]

Filed Under: Critical Material, Miscellaneous, Retirement Planning Tagged With: Critical Material, Retirement Planning

If Starting Over

June 10, 2024 By Lowell Herr

What advice would I pass on to a beginning investor?  Is this advice applicable for a retired investor?  You be the judge. Investing does not require a finance degree from the University of Chicago.  For starters, check out this video to see just how simple it really is.  To broaden your knowledge, read a few […]

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Returning To Investing Roots: 5 August 2024

August 4, 2024 By Lowell Herr

This ITA Wealth Management blog has been chugging along for approximately 16.5 years.  Over the last few months I’ve moved several portfolios back to what I call my investing roots or what is known as the Asset Allocation model.  While I loosely used this model for years going back into the 1960s through the 1990s, […]

Filed Under: Portfolio Management, Beginning Investors, Critical Material, Miscellaneous Tagged With: Critical Material, Portfolio Management

Rutherford Portfolio Review (Tranche 3): 9 August 2024

August 10, 2024 By hedgehunter

If we were just to look at prices today and the same time last week we might think that it was a quiet week in the US markets – but, it was far from that, with a dramatic pullback on Monday followed by a full recovery by the end of the week: Monday saw a […]

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Miscellaneous, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Rutherford Portfolio

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 7 February 2025

February 9, 2025 By hedgehunter

Another rather volatile week in US equity markets with no clear indication of a short-term trend: ….. although we remain in the longer term uptrend channel that started last May. We have now been churning sideways for the past 3 months. US equities remained relatively unchanged over the past week although SPY (the S&P 500 […]

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Rutherford Portfolio

Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 14 February 2025

February 16, 2025 By hedgehunter

It was another week of choppy sideways movement in US equities although the SPX did close higher by ~1.5% and close to the all-time highs that have been providing strong resistance over the past 3 months: However, we remain well within the bullish uptrend channel so we will watch to see where we might go […]

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Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 21 February 2025

February 24, 2025 By hedgehunter

After hitting new all-time highs on Wednesday, US Equities collapsed on Friday with prices now sitting on the lower boundary of the longer-term uptrend channel: Thus, we remain in the choppy sideways consolidation range that we have been in for the past 3 months. Now we might ask whether Wednesday’s high was a triple top […]

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Rutherford-Darwin Portfolio Review: 28 February 2025

March 2, 2025 By hedgehunter

It was another volatile week in the US Equity markets with the bears beating the bulls by ~1%: with Friday’s bounce off the ~5840-5880 zone that is providing strong support we are back into the sideways consolidation channel that we have been in for the past ~4 months but are now ouside the upward trend […]

Filed Under: Rutherford Portfolio, Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance Tagged With: Darwin Portfolio, Options, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Performance, Rutherford Portfolio

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