Congratulations Kerrigan Gruhn
Windsor Wealth is proud to congratulate Kerrigan Gruhn on her senior volleyball year for being named the ITG Next Georgia Female Athlete of the month!
Congratulations John Jessup!
Windsor Wealth is proud to say congratulations to John Jessup! The new Cross Country Champion of Hall County!
Gainesville High School Hall of Fame
We are proud to sponsor the Gainesville High School Hall of Fame Banquet!
My Favorite Baskeball Player of All Time!
I was born in 1970 and can remember watching basketball with my dad starting in 1974. Dad loved Jerry West because he was from West Virginia, just like we were, and Jerry was my first favorite basketball player. When we moved to Atlanta, I became a big Dan Roundfield fan. I thought his knee braces and wristbands were so cool. As I got older and started to play basketball, I learned I had to be scrappy and play with a lot of attitude to win the respect of my teammates. So, I soon grew to love Danny Ainge because he did not take crap from anybody! Then, like most kids my age, Michael Jordan was, and still is to me, the best of all time! Len Bias was also my favorite college player during this time, and his death affected me greatly. My all-time favorite Georgia Basketball player was the great Willie Anderson. My most recent favorite player was Nicolas Claxton. Last August, I noticed my son, a senior at Gainesville High School, started playing basketball with his friends. This was odd because he had never wanted to play basketball as… Read More
Start at the Beginning and Stop at the End
It is the first working day in January, and every business is at zero: zero sales, zero expenses, and zero profits. So, will we have a better, another record-setting year? What is the likelihood? A few things have not changed; we are all working to improve the outcomes of our clients and customers, and in doing so, increase our enterprises’ value. Our friends at Dow Jones Indices, publisher of earnings and other financial metrics for the S&P 500, estimate that earnings should grow about 9% over last year. If the estimate holds, we’ll see in a couple of quarters; the result would be remarkable in the face of higher material, labor, logistics, and borrowing costs. “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” As you may know, this quote is attributed to Mark Twain: In our last newsletter, we commented on Alan Greenspan’s “Irrational Exuberance” speech in 1996, referencing the high-flying tech companies of those days. In our previous newsletter, we brought to your attention several examples of outsized valuations on a variety of asset classes; real estate, art collectibles, cars, and some meme stocks. As inflation accelerates, you may even recollect the 1970’s “Stagflation,” a term coined by Iain… Read More
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Topsy-Turvy
Does anyone remember the dot.com bust? Does anyone remember; Webvan, Boo.com, or Worldcom? Do you remember the wild Initial Public Offerings (IPO) of the dot-com companies – companies which by going public raised millions of dollars but never showed a profit? Do you remember folks quitting their jobs to day-trade in “the market”? Does anyone remember the media hype associated with financial markets during that era? And, does anyone remember how it ended? In a 1996 speech, Alan Greenspan, the then chair of the Open Market Committee of the Federal Reserve Board, referred to the dot-com phenomenon as “Irrational Exuberance.” Speculation is the act of making a relatively risky investment in the hope of making a sizeable short-term profit from price fluctuations; house-flipping, day-trading, cyber currencies, anyone? Investing, on the other hand, requires a commitment to an outcome. It may be owning and developing an enterprise. It may be buying the public stock of a business that increases its dividends regularly. It often requires patience and a long-term outlook – letting the company employees work for the owner (investor) every day to provide value to customers. The likely outcome being a consistent dividend stream resulting in increased wealth. Andy Kessler… Read More
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Congratulations Mia Viera Lilly
Congratulations to Mia Viera Lilly! She graduated from Gainesville High School. Mia will be attending Georgia Southern in the Fall, and we all could not be prouder of her! The Lilly’s. Mia and Anne Michele Lilly. “Mom.” Mia and Anne Mclemore. “Grammy.” Mia and John Namon Lilly II. “Zeke” and “Popey” Mia and Dad. Or most of the time “DAD!!!!!!” A very proud dad and his wonderful daughter!
John Lilly, III awarded Honorary Gainesville High Diploma
https://accesswdun.com/article/2021/5/1006487/gainesville-high-awards-three-honorary-diplomas