Quote Of The Week: Marketing Timing

By Mari Adam on November 4, 2014 in Investing

Trying to predict market movements sounds great. There’s only one problem. It doesn’t work.

“My clients pay me a lot of money so I can tell them that I don’t know the future,” says Allan Roth, a certified financial planner based in Colorado Springs, Colo.

“The more we try to time the market, the worse we do.”

John Kimelman, “The Timeless Allure of Stock-Market Timers,” Barron’s, October 28, 2014

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Mari Adam, Certified Financial Planner™ and President of Adam Financial Associates Inc, has been helping individuals and families chart their financial futures for over twenty-five years. Have a question about your financial situation? Ask Mari!

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