stock market
Aren't there "safe stocks?" What about "low" volatility funds?
Submitted by Trott Brook Financial on January 4th, 2021How can stocks be up when the economy is down?
Submitted by Trott Brook Financial on August 25th, 2020Bear Market Rallies
Submitted by Trott Brook Financial on May 8th, 2020Market Update
Submitted by Trott Brook Financial on March 22nd, 2020The dual battle against the covid-19 virus and resulting financial turmoil continues. As it happens, in my annual State of the Markets presentation this year, I spent some time discussing economic history. This is a subject I’ve been increasingly reading about over the last 18 months.
The Effects of the Coronavirus
Submitted by Trott Brook Financial on March 17th, 2020It has been an extraordinary month as the reality of the spreading coronavirus and its economic consequences sets in. Unfortunately, the playbook for managing a pandemic of this nature will most certainly result in a hit to the economy. This crisis will pass, but the consensus among experts is it will likely take months.
A Wild Week
Submitted by Trott Brook Financial on February 28th, 2020Whew…what a week! It brings me back to my first year in the industry. I reported to work the first week of January 2008. Little did I (or anyone else for that matter) know we were on the doorstep of a huge market downturn.
Is it up-hill from here?
Submitted by Trott Brook Financial on February 28th, 2019In mid-February, we hosted our annual “State of the Markets” breakfast. Once again the weather was crummy. In fact, the snow was bad enough that schools closed locally. That’s the second time in four years we’ve held our event on a day that school was canceled!
It’s an election year…does it matter?
Submitted by Trott Brook Financial on November 2nd, 2018Every election cycle we get a handful of clients inquiring about repositioning ahead of voters going to the polls. Our advice is virtually always the same, if your time frame and investment objectives haven’t changed, neither should your positioning.
Instability is Stabilizing
Submitted by Trott Brook Financial on September 26th, 2018This month marks the ten-year anniversary of the climax of the 2008 financial crisis. That September, falling asset prices led to the bankruptcy of the investment bank Lehman Brothers. The collapse started a domino effect which nearly brought down the entire global financial system. Both the US economy and stock market bottomed out in the following months at different points in 2009.