Jonathan Jaranson, CFP®

As the first decade of the 21st century came to a close, financial commentators across the news media were quick to coin what they felt was an apt description of the last 10 years for equity investors: The Lost...

First, the good news: $1,000 invested in the S&P 500 on the first trading day of 1945 would now be worth over $1,000,000. The bad news? As an investor, you would have had to endure thirteen bear markets, or about...