In these uncertain times filled with events seemingly beyond our individual control, what is an investor to do? Talk of recession, waning consumer confidence, growing unemployment and now catastrophic international events affecting global markets hits one like a deer caught in the headlights, so to speak. read more »

In 1996, Fred Couples was trying hard to bring attention to the Pacific Northwest as a viable venue for PGA sanctioned gold tournaments. I was working hard to transition my book of business from Edward Jones to Piper Jaffary where I had moved my career to the same year.

Fred Couples was near the top of his game, coming of a win at the Masters just a few short years before. I was practicing serating the soil at the Kitsap Golf and Country Club, with a handicap very wildly fluctuating between 19 and 22 . read more »