Welcome to the second half of 2022. It’s been a very ”fascinating” ride, hasn’t it? Stocks fell for another straight quarter, with the MSCI All Country World IMI Index dropping nearly 16% and major indices entering bear market territory...
Good Afternoon, We want to update you on the recent market action and provide you with a bit of perspective to help you think about what is going on. First and foremost—all is not lost! Despite the last week’s...
Real opportunities to earn fatter returns in cash assets have finally appeared, after one of the longest yield droughts in memory. Sorry, Virginia, you won’t find them in your local bank or credit union. They don’t need all the...
Spiking oil and gas prices have put a new spotlight on alternative energy sources; in particular, how their costs have come down in recent years to become competitive with fossil fuels. The most common measure, used by the U.S....
What a difference a single quarter makes! At this time just three short months ago everything was looking rosy after another strong year in 2021. In January's market update, we wrote that after two stellar years in the stock...
And just like that, two years have passed since the spring of 2020. Two years since none of us had a clue how long COVID would linger … or how quickly today would arrive. Time can confound us that...
Pop the champagne! It is almost time to turn the page on the calendar to a new year. What will 2022 mean for your retirement accounts? All signs point to a very busy year ahead. Here is what we...
You’ve probably heard of special-purchase acquisition companies—SPACs for short—which raise money in initial public offerings from investors without actually revealing how they plan to deploy it, and then trade on exchanges—often at high multiples—with nothing more to offer investors...
Wow, what a crazy year. If there was ever going to be a year to prove, once and for all, that the prognosticators and so-called financial gurus cannot consistently predict near-term future market performance, 2021 brought that message home...