Thursday, 17 December 2009 00:20 Last Updated on Friday, 18 December 2009 21:03
I remember when the term "blog" first became part of our daily vernacular. What an awkward word. Why would anyone in my business bother? What possible use could there be for a “web log”? After giving the idea half-hearted consideration over the last few years, I finally decided to “go for it” after attending this year’s Schwab Impact conference in San Diego. It seems that this whole blogger craze has gone mainstream…for the investment management business. A growing number of clients actually utilize financial advisory blogs and find it to be yet another means of communicating with their advisors. What the heck, right? I already write a monthly newsletter. This couldn’t be so hard.
So here goes. My intention with this blog is to be more spontaneous and less formal than my newsletter. I intend to share my real-time thinking, perhaps even as I am thinking it for the first time. A new investment idea. A reaction to a comment heard on CNBC. Posting a link to a must-read article. And I do not intend to limit my blog to the economy and investments. I will share and blog about those subjects and issues that are interesting to me. Politics. Wine. Golf. You get the picture. Since this will be a free form experiment, I do not plan on making this an everyday affair. Just enough to keep me and hopefully my readers interested. I’ll know the experiment has failed when the whole idea of blogging seems like a boring task. We shall see. In the meantime, I’d appreciate your feedback after I get this blog rolling. Thanks for your interest!