Throughout the last 6 months, the stock market has been hoping for a "goldilocks" scenario. With the Fed raising interest rates aggressively to fight inflation, the market participants were looking for any sign the economy was slowing enough to cool inflation, which in turn would lead the Fed to backing
April is Financial Literacy Month. For the entire month, we're going to be covering various financial literacy topics. Below are all the videos from week 1:
Things being taught in school
@finance_nerd Financial literacy is so important, yet it isn't being taught in school. We'll be posting content all
After the volatility the past 15 months in the stock and bond markets, we wanted to take a step back and examine the structure of our Cornerstone models. This short video explains what has happened, some of the key drivers behind the performance inside the models, and some of the

Things are breaking
The last few weeks of March were filled with concerns about the banking system as the failure of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank caught most people by surprise. This immediately brought memories of the 2008 Financial Crisis which led to risks of more contagion as deposits
If I told you at the start of the year we'd have the second largest bank failure in the history of our country in March, you'd probably expect the stock and bond markets to have a rough quarter. While we saw a short sell-off, stocks finished the month with a