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Client Letter | Looking Ahead | November 2, 2022

James Hendries

The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index (S&P500) is a capitalization-weighted index of 500 stocks designed to measure performance of the broad domestic economy through changes in the aggregate market value of 500 stocks representing all major industries. Asset allocation does not ensure a profit or protect against a loss.

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Market Review 2021: A Recovery Amid Challenges

ClearMoney

And it was a year that showed, again, the difficulty of making investment decisions based on predictions of where markets will go—as well as the enduring benefits of diversification and flexibility. Coming out of a volatile 2020, investors sought signals as to which way the global economy was headed. Data provided by Bloomberg.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

The Big Picture

And it’s kind of funny, if you, and now you see it in New York City, but if you showed up in a meeting in a coat and tie, post the dot-com era and coming into the more recent stuff, you were viewed as sort of the old economy. JOHNSON: And then I moved into, we had a bank at the time, and I moved into running part of the bank.

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Latest Equity Asset Alocation Views | Weekly Market Commentary | March 13, 2023

James Hendries

Instead, we got a shockingly fast collapse of a financial institution with over $200 billion in assets, which turned the market’s focus toward the stability of the banking system and what systemic risks banks might be facing. They tend to do better early in economic cycles once the economy emerges from recession.

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5 Important Investment Formulas for Financial Success

WiserAdvisor

Inflation increases year-on-year and is defined as the rise in the prices of goods and services in an economy. The inflation-adjusted return is the value of your investment gains after factoring in inflation. Capital appreciation is one of the primary objectives of investing. Inflation-adjusted return. Rule of 72.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

My mental image was that he worked in the bank of, back of a bank approving mortgage applications. And actually Ben Inker is the head of our asset allocation group. As I mentioned, a lot of our, I think initial funds have come from tax paying investment advisors and such who might have a choice which to use.

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Market Responses to Fed (in)Action | Weekly Market Commentary | June 20, 2023

James Hendries

As the economy is likely downshifting, investors should take heed that the Federal Reserve’s (Fed) current stance is eerily similar to early 2007. During that time, the Fed held a tightening bias since they believed the housing market was stabilizing, the economy would continue to expand, and inflation risks remained.