Watching the stock market Wednesday through Friday last week, my brain couldn't help but keep singing this song.
I'm all for the stock market rocketing to all-time highs. Higher stock prices means higher account values for our clients. For most of the year we've been presenting what the DATA says
When helping clients, advisors, and students understand the market I often say, "the market is a forward looking mechanism". Essentially today's prices are the present value of all future income streams. This requires a lot of projections (guessing) about what will come in the future. Interest rate levels and inflation
The media has declared stocks are in a bear market. What does that mean? Should we be worried? What should you do if this is a bear market? How is SEM positioned for a bear market? Watch the short video below for answers to all of these questions and more.
42 weeks ago our country began to panic over a virus which had started making headlines in early January. I'm sure nobody will forget 2020. It's been quite a year and one where we've all learned a lot about ourselves, our families, our co-workers, and our fellow Americans. Everybody's experience
I've been managing money for over 25 years. With advisors and clients across the country and now the ability to hold client meetings online I can usually get a pretty good feeling for investor sentiment. I used the word "animal spirits" to describe investor sentiment two weeks ago. Euphoric and
