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Welcome to Insights & Issues, where we feature insights, advice and information about a variety of wealth management topics. We also encourage you to visit our Reading List, which includes books recommended by LongVue staff, colleagues and clients.

An Antidote to Sleepless Nights
A look back at the great market crashes of the past 100 years reveals that the current crisis is not unprecedented, nor is its course unpredictable.
Insights & Issues - November, 2008

Philanthropy:  An Antidote to Market Pain

In the wake of continuing bad economic news, it's good to remind ourselves that giving – not getting – is the secret to a rewarding life.  
Insights & Issues - September, 2008


Virtue, Horror and Happiness
Back by popular demand…we’re pleased to offer you LongVue’s 2008 Summer Reading List, an eclectic mix of books worth sharing and talking about
Insights & Issues - June, 2008

More Lessons From the Big Screen: We've seen this movie before.
We seem to be stuck in a season of horror flicks.
IInsights & Issues - April, 2008

Lessons from Oz : Putting the current crisis in perspective
It's been all smoke and mirrors with no one bothering to look behind the magic curtain.
IInsights & Issues - February, 2008

Near Misses, Closet Skeletons and Smoking Guns:
How LongVue learns what investment managers don’t want to tell you.
CIO Bruce Stewart shares the LongVue approach to choosing investment managers.
IInsights & Issues - January, 2008

Five Years & $1 Billion Later
Founded in 2002, LongVue Advisors today has 18 employees, almost 60 client families, and over $1 billion of assets under advice.
Insights & Issues - November, 2007

Bad Investment Habits: Investors continue to prove they're all too human.
In this sequel to last month's issue of "Insights & Issues," we continue to explore the emotional underpinnings of most investor behavior.
Insights & Issues - September, 2007

The Myth of the Secret Sauce
We continue to explore the impact of emotion on investor behavior with this look at the winning habits of two investment titans.
Insights & Issues - August, 2007

The Personal Investment Capture (P.I.C.)
LongVue's proprietary methodology for setting objective risk and reward targets for our clients.
Insights & Issues - May, 2007

2006 smiled on most investors - so we should all be happy, right?
Perhaps neither wealth, nor happiness, is what it's all about after all.
Insights & Issues - February, 2007

Redefining "Family Wealth"
Building human, intellectual, social and financial capital.
Insights & Issues - November, 2006

Managing the Pain Index
Why LongVue favors inefficient asset classes and unemotional investing.
Insights & Issues - September, 2006

When Markets Behave Like Volatile Children, What's an Investor to Do?
At LongVue Advisors, we try to act like Star Trek's Mr. Spock.
Insights & Issues - August, 2006

The Cure for Seasonal Perspective Disorder
Learn the truth about the future from some famous prognosticators.
Insights & Issues - May, 2006

Vanishing Wealth: An Alarming Prediction in LongVue's Crystal Ball
LongVue's advice about how to avoid becoming part of a sad national statistic.
Taking the LongVue - February, 2006

Building an All-Weather Portfolio
Our Chief Investment Officer explains LongVue's strategy for preserving client wealth.
Insights & Issues - December, 2005

Hurricanes and Financial Planning: The art & science of managing risk
At LongVue, we study human behavior so we can guard against acting human when making investment decisions.
Taking the LongVue - October, 2005

Cutting Through the Confusion: What in the World is a Family Office?
What questions should you ask before hiring one?
Insights & Issues - September, 2005

Shirtsleeves to Shirtsleeves in Three Generations
Without careful planning, family fortunes often dissipate.
Taking the LongVue - June, 2005

2004 Year-End Review
Optimistically building 'all-weather' portfolios - in the face of scandals and disasters.
Taking the LongVue - January, 2005

'Opening the Kimono' With Your Children
In a society that talks freely about sex and death, talk of money is sometimes the last taboo.
Taking the LongVue - September, 2004

Developing the Mentality of an Explorer
To be successful in the 'third industrial revolution' (to a knowledge-based economy) one must actively embrace the unknown and learn from experience.
Taking the LongVue - June, 2004

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