Meridian Blog

If you’ve turned on the TV, seen a newspaper, been on social media at all–or followed this blog–you are already aware that it has been a rough year so far in the markets.  In fact, it has been historically awful.   The challenge in times like these is to stay focused and clearheaded

Recently, Vanguard put out a great whitepaper (fancy term for “compliance-approved informative article”) on the benefits of rebalancing your portfolio on a regular basis. There was a lot of good information in the article, but I was particularly interested in the two charts that showed

The markets have always been a predictor of what’s to come. Everything feels bad, looks bad, and the outlook seems pretty bad on many fronts for the rest of this year. The market, both on the stock and the bond side, agrees with that sentiment. Hence, the terrible performance for both stocks and