Author Archive: Bob Seawright
by Bob Seawright on Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Many of you have no doubt seen some variation of the famous Stephen Covey presentation wherein Covey puts a bag of small pebbles (representing the less important, perhaps extraneous stuff of our lives) into a container and then has a volunteer try...
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by Bob Seawright on Tuesday, February 21, 2012
There is a famous story, almost surely apocryphal, that makes the rounds with some regularity in our industry. As the story goes, a new, struggling advisor buys a mailing list of 10,000 potential prospects. He then writes two separate newsletters...
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by Bob Seawright on Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Background. As I have written and discussed numerous times, we remain mired in the throes of a secular bear market, prone to major swings in both directions. This reality has led to much discussion of the alleged “lost decade” for stocks. How much...
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by Bob Seawright on Tuesday, February 07, 2012
In Word and Object, Quine made Neurath’s boat analogy famous. It compares the holistic nature of language and consequently scientific verification with the construction of a boat which is already at sea.
“We are like sailors who on the open sea...
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by Bob Seawright on Tuesday, January 31, 2012
IV. Top Ten Recommendations
I made 10 specific recommendations for 2011 back in January. I will look at how each of these recommendations performed in order. It’s time to turn in my scorecard for 2011.
Diversify. Diversification always makes...
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by Bob Seawright on Monday, January 23, 2012
III. 2012 Outlook
Clearly, the so-called experts were pretty far off in their projections for 2011. Why wasn’t the consensus view accurate? In addition to the inherent optimism of Wall Street analysts (a big part of their job is to get investors to ...
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by Bob Seawright on Wednesday, January 18, 2012
I. Introduction
Even though the majority of analysts are once again proclaiming that all will be well in the financial markets and that investors should expect outstanding returns in 2012, I am (once again) unconvinced. Serious questions remain...
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by Bob Seawright on Thursday, October 21, 2010
The Securities and Exchange Commission has withdrawn Rule 151A under the Securities Act of 1933.
Rule 151A was designed to classify indexed annuities as securities for regulatory purposes. The Withdrawing Release notes that on July 12, 2010 the...
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by Bob Seawright on Monday, October 18, 2010
MIT professor Peter A. Diamon was awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics last week for developing a theory that helps explain mismatches between employers and job seekers that can contribute to high unemployment — even when job openings are...
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by Bob Seawright on Tuesday, October 12, 2010
City Journal provided an interesting review of Daniel Pink's Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. An excerpt:
"An accumulating pile of academic research shows that rewards tend to focus the brain more narrowly on the specific task...
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