2021: Cheers to Hope and Caution

Dear Friends, We hope this letter finds you and your family well. We first would like to acknowledge that it was a difficult season, and our hearts go out to anyone who has been impacted at some level (which is…
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Who You Should Vote for in the 2020 Election? (Just Kidding, Of Course)

Dear Friends: Who You Should Vote for in the 2020 Election? (just kidding, of course) Recently I (Mitch) was talking with a pastor friend who lamented that “talking about Heaven makes people happy, talking about Hell gets you yelled at,…
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Cattle Call Podcast

“Show me the money, Mitch!” As founder of E|Financial Alliance outside of Nashville, Tennessee, Mitch Anderson has spent his career helping others become successful stewards and has created a business of helping people strategically invest in themselves and their communities—…
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Where Are We Now?

Dear Friends, Where Are We Now? “Wall Street has a few prudent principles; the trouble is that they are always forgotten when they are most needed.” – Benjamin Graham (widely known as the father of value investing and mentor to…
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Life in These Times

Dear Friends, It is hard to overstate how much our lives have been dramatically impacted over the last 4-6 six weeks by the COVID-19 virus outbreak. Although uncomfortable for all of us in the near-term, we as a people have…
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The Need for Strong Community

Dear Friends, We have all been getting bombarded with COVID-19 updates – even our electronic document management software company sent an update to tell us they are working from home even though we have never interacted with them on a…
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6 Ways to Manage Market Uncertainty

Dear Friends, Almost 1 year ago exactly we posted onto our blog and quarterly letter a piece called “Recovering from Bad Markets and Flu Pandemics”.   In it was a timeless quote from Sir John Templeton, widely regarded as one…
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The 11th Commandment?

Dear Friends, As we enter 2020, we can appreciate just what a difference a year can make.  Even if you are not of the Christian faith, chances are you are very familiar with the Ten Commandments from the Bible (I…
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Stranger Things – Feeling Prosperous in Turbulent Times

Dear Friends, On July 4th, the new season of the Netflix TV hit “Stranger Things” came out, and if you are like my (Mitch’s) family and 40 million others, you couldn’t wait to tune in and watch what chaos would…
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Bouncing Back from the Flu – and Down Markets

Dear Friends, There are a couple of powerful factors that help explain why most know about the Swine Flu, but very few are familiar with the Spanish Flu. The first is a concept that psychologists refer to as “Recency Bias”,…
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