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"Don't Believe the Hype?"

Round Hill Wealth Management Mid-Year 2023 Update
Read More"Hunkering Down"

Round Hill Wealth Management 2022 Review / 2023 Outlook
Read More"A Day in the Life..."

Round Hill Wealth Management Q3 2022 Update and Commentary
Read More"Time Discovers Truth"

Round Hill Wealth Management Q2 2022 Update and Commentary
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"Claustrophobia"

Round Hill Wealth Management 2022 Commentary and Outlook
Read More"Enough is Enough"

Round Hill Wealth Management latest commentary and outlook.
Read MoreWhat We Know*, What We Think We Know* and What We Know We Don't Know* - Part 3

Round Hill Wealth Q3 2020 Update
Read MoreThe Power of Preservation

Supplemental Commentary / Outlook Round Hill Wealth Management April 3, 2020
Read More2019 Mid-Year Commentary / Outlook

"Money for Nothing (and the buy-backs for free)"
Read MoreQ4 2018 Commentary / 2019 Outlook

Round Hill Wealth Management's Q4 2018 Commentary / 2019 Outlook
Read More'Til Death Do Us Part

Round Hill Wealth Management's Q3 2018 Quarterly Update.
Read MoreWhat We Know, What We Think We Know and What We Don’t Know....Part Deux

Round Hill Wealth Management's Q2 2018 Quarterly Update.
Read MoreAnd the Swamp Shall Remain Filleth

Q4 2017 Commentary / 2018 Outlook – January 21, 2018
Read MoreWhat Goes Up, Must....

Round Hill Wealth Management’s Q3 2017 Quarterly Update
Read MoreEquifax Data Breach - What You Should Know

Equifax Data Breach – What You Should Know Last month, one of the big four credit reporting agencies, Equifax, announced it experienced a security breach resulting in criminals accessing personal information of approximately 143...
Read MoreFive Real World Tips for Transitioning into Retirement

So you’re getting ready to retire – congratulations! You’ve dreamed of this day your entire working life I am sure. Yet, now that the time is near, all...
Read MoreWhat We Know, What We Think We Know and What We Don't Know

Round Hill Wealth Management's Q1 2017 quarterly update.
Read MoreThe Fed vs. The Donald

Round Hill Wealth Management's latest quarterly commentary along with our outlook for 2017.
Read MorePresidential Election and Your Money

Round Hill Wealth Management's latest commentary concerning the upcoming Presidential election and potential effects on markets and the economy.
Read MoreQ2 2016 Commentary

Our latest update and market commentary for the 2nd quarter of 2016.
Read MoreQ1 2016 Commentary

Our latest commentary for the 1st quarter of 2016.
Read MoreQ4 Update / 2016 Outlook

Round Hill Wealth Management's commentary on the final quarter of 2015, as well as a look ahead to what we see taking shape as the major investment themes for the coming year.
Read MoreQuarterly Update - October 7, 2015

We are going to mix things up a bit in this quarter's update. For one, some clients have expressed that our previous content had become a bit too "technical". That is probably an understatement, as one reader actually commented that...
Read MoreQuarterly News Letter - 4/2/2015

Q1 2015 - High Volatility Leads to a Whole Lot of Nothing For all of those "high adrenaline adventure seeker" types, the first quarter of 2015 did not disappoint! Triple digit moves in either direction for the Dow became the norm...
Read MoreQuarterly News Letter - 1/7/2015

Welcome to our first in a series of quarterly newsletters designed to communicate our thoughts and opinions surrounding the current investment environment. We hope these letters will provide further insight on things you are seeing in...
Read MoreStock Valuations - Do They Matter? Part 3: Where are We Today?

If you have not yet read parts 1 and 2 of this series, you might want to take a glance at them before reading this as the below discussion should then make much more sense..... In the first 2 parts of this series, we examined the...
Read MoreStock Valuations - Do They Matter? Part 2: The "What Goes Up Must Come Down" Theory

If you have not yet read Part 1 of this series (The Shiller PE/10 Ratio), please take a moment to do so before continuing....failure to do so will leave you unfulfilled and confused! If you have read the Round Hill Rant consistently,...
Read MoreStock Valuations ------ Do They Matter? Part 1: The Shiller PE/10 Ratio

How many times do you turn on your TV or radio these days, only to hear people yapping back and forth about current stock market valuations? One side says that stocks are cheap and that we should be mortgaging our house to buy them -...
Read MorePsychology of Investing - Part 3: Removing Emotion from Investment Decisions

Our 1st two writings tackled the importance of factoring risk tolerance into our investment strategies, along with some ways to determine what your true tolerance for risk really is. Now let’s turn our focus on how we can best ensure...
Read MorePsychology of Investing – Part 2: Understanding your True Tolerance for Risk

If you read part 1 (Academics vs. Emotion) in our 3 part series on psychology and investing…..well, I’m kind of shocked you are back for part 2. Kidding aside, I focused on the importance of considering risk tolerance – or tolerance...
Read MorePsychology of Investing - Part 1: Academics vs. Emotion

You might find this hard to believe, but most financial advisors like to talk……and talk, and talk some more (I guess proof of this comes from the fact that I am writing this in the first place). Often times, our ramblings seem aimed at...
Read MoreSabermetrics and the Stock Market

The game of baseball is a passion of mine – I love everything about it and what it represents……well, almost everything. Some of my earliest memories around the game were pouring over and analyzing player and team statistics. However,...
Read MoreOur First "Blog"!

Pop the champagne, our first blog entry! Not sure if it is actually referred to as a “blog entry” - in fact until about a month ago, I thought a blog was the name of an old horror movie. Who knew that there were places on the internet...
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