Bill Cara

Help You Invest

Wall Street goes to Washington to speak for the people? LOL

September 21, 2022 This otherwise well-written article by Ken Sweet, AP Business Writer, appears to show bankers speaking on behalf of consumers and independent investors. How dare they. Bank CEOs warn of ‘daunting’ challenges from inflation WASHINGTON (AP) — In what has become an annual ritual, the CEOs of the

Read More »

Strive Asset Management shareholder letter to Chevron

September 6, 2022 Good Evening, Bill Today, Strive sent our first shareholder letter to Chevron. We call on Chevron to liberate itself from constraints imposed by its ESG-promoting “shareholders” and to focus exclusively on maximizing long run value for the company’s ultimate owners. Read the full letter here or below.

Read More »

The seriousness of Conflicts of Interest in Financial Services

August 29, 2022 I am authoring a new book about the stock market. It will be published this year. It’s because capital markets have become downstream to the financial services industry culture, which is killing independent investment and making the bankers and their closest associates wealthier. Agents in financial services

Read More »

What is a Financial Advisor?

June 10, 2022 Although we read about Financial Advisors all the time, my question is not as simple as simply referring to someone who is licensed as a Financial Advisor, like me for instance. Financial advice could be, say, should you restructure your debts? or should you afford to buy

Read More »

Why billcara.com does not provide financial advice to the public

2022.01.29 I am a registered financial advisor who also writes a public blog at billcara.com, which I do for purposes of education and information. If anybody who invests wishes to participate in the Comments section using a nickname, they can do so if they are respectful of the education and

Read More »

Good and bad advice to your financial advisor

2022-01-27 Both points that are made today in the ETF Insider report at FinancialAdvisorIQ.com have been discussed by me repeatedly here in the blog and coincidentally in my upcoming book “120 Lessons in Capital Markets”. Welcome to this week’s ETF Insider. We’re looking at two tools in advisors’ ETF portfolio

Read More »

Educating clients and readers on the Metaverse

January 18, 2022 Today at a client’s request, I gave a lot of thought to his negative opinion of crypto and so I wrote a bit about it earlier today in the blog. But, with market prices down at a time that I see investing in crypto is an opportunity,

Read More »