Perspectives

U.S. trade conflicts have entered a new phase. President Trump has demonstrated his tariff threats are real, individual companies can be blacklisted and his rationale for new tariffs can extend [...]

Over the past several weeks, stock markets around the world have been volatile and are generally trading lower.  Here in the U.S., while the S&P 500 remains in positive territory [...]

Investors are no doubt weary of hearing about all of the geo-political and economic risks in the world. The last five years have been exhausting, filled with unprecedented volatility, global [...]

Heading into the end of 2012 headlines about the pending “Fiscal Cliff”, an uncomfortable combination of spending cuts (sequestration) and tax increases due to kick in on January 1st, [...]

The S&P 500 was up nearly 11% in the first quarter of 2013 even while the looming sequestration threatened to shave up to 0.5% off GDP, North Korea threatened war, the situation in Cyprus [...]

Yesterday’s unexpected election result causes investors to wonder what can be expected over the next few years from a Trump presidency and a divided country. This election has been highly [...]

Why the anger? It’s the economy One of the many notable characteristics of this unconventional presidential race is the broad-base populist uprising from both the left and right.  Across [...]

By now we’ve all likely caught a glimpse of the headlines and realized that the quiet that dominated the U.S. investment markets since 2011, is over. Until this month, the S&P 500 had gone [...]

Many believe that we’re living in an environment of perpetually slower economic growth and potentially lower investment returns. Due to a variety of factors, investment returns may be below what [...]

2014 Wrap up: While the rapid decline in energy prices dominated headlines as 2014 ended, the U.S. stock market turned in a 6th consecutive year of positive returns with the S&P 500 up 13.7%, [...]