article thumbnail

Market Commentary: Strong Starts to the Year Are Usually Bullish for Stocks

Carson Wealth

Looking at the numbers, more good news could be in store for the bulls. Looking more closely at the data above, we noticed only 1976 and 2012 were election years and the market returned 4.6% But the odds favor more green numbers. The logical question is: How much is too much? 2024 is off to a strong start.

article thumbnail

Market Commentary: Checking In on Market Fundamentals

Carson Wealth

gain, but not a bad number by any means. This is only the eighth time that has ever happened and the first time since the first quarter of 2012 (also an election year). That means labor productivity continues to run strong, as workers are producing above-trend output while working the same number of hours. median return.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

A Promising Picture for Financial Planner Job Growth

eMoney Advisor

Financial advisor is among the professions, such as epidemiologist, that saw a big increase in projected employment once the BLS factored the effects of the pandemic into the estimates. While these are only estimates, not forecasts, the numbers seem promising. Financial Services Industry Trends. population.

article thumbnail

Top IT Stocks in 2023 – Best IT Stocks In Indian Stock Market

Trade Brains

is an Indian IT company that is a part of Mahindra Group that provides Network technology solutions and Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) services to a large number of industries. 9) Oracle Financial Services Software Limited. Oracle Financial Services Software Ltd. Tech Mahindra Ltd.

article thumbnail

15 Best Stock Brokers in India 2022 – List/Review of Top Stock Brokers!

Trade Brains

Competing with big players like HDFC and ICICI is indeed a difficult task but Zerodha has managed to remain the Number One discount broker of the country. The ICICI Direct which is a part of ICICI Securities ranks number one in the full-service stockbrokers’ list. Upstox started as RKSV in 2012 and rebranded to Upstox in 2015.

article thumbnail

Resilience is Core to Sustainable Portfolio Construction

Brown Advisory

The idea has since been refined more quantitatively, first by Benoit Mandelbrot in his 1982 book, The Fractal Geometry, and more recently by Nassim Nicolas Taleb in his 2007 book, The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, and then again in his 2012 book, Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder.

article thumbnail

Crypto – just a rock, or a good investment? (debate got wild)

Sara Grillo

What we’ve seen in 2022 is that there were a number of hacks. In addition to the CFP ® mark, he also earned the Chartered Financial Consultant (ChFC ® ) and Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU ® ) designations from the American College of Financial Services. Giles: Banks do have to follow rules and regulations.