To Inform: “There are decades where nothing happens, and then there are weeks where decades happen”. This quote, attributed to Vladimir Lenin, rings particularly true today. For long stretches of time, the social, political, and economic arrangements of a society operate within ranges that all participants can at least recognize if not agree with. The […]

To Inspire: How often have you said or heard “I’m fine, it’s fine, he’s fine, she’s fine? Mel Robbins, a renowned motivational speaker and talk show host delivered a powerful Ted Talk a few years ago called “How to stop screwing yourself over.” I’ve listened to this a few times and would love to share […]

To inform:  Earlier this week TJG Portfolio Manager Alex Durbin and I had a chance to have a video call with Mark Nabi, an Investment Director at Capital Group, regarding the status of company dividend payments in the current environment. According to Nabi, “dividends remain an important source of income for investors, but with much […]

To inspire: No doubt all of us have family members or friends that are exhibiting a lot of negativity in the midst of this coronavirus challenge. It’s precisely during times like this that our loved ones need us most to help lift their mood. In an article from the June 2016 issue of Success Magazine, […]

Before the spread of the coronavirus and this lock down, virtual experiences sounded interesting, but not compared to actually getting out into the world. Now we’ve been mostly or entirely locked down for weeks, and a ‘real’ vacation is a distant dream. Here in Central Ohio, we’ve had a cool, wet, often-gray Spring, making it […]

To inform:  Coming into the office today was different. Being a financial firm, The Joseph Group is an “essential business” so we’ve had a few people in the office each day for the last eight weeks keeping socially distant from one another. The area around our downtown Columbus Arena District office has been largely empty […]

To Inform: Close your eyes…imagine yourself a year ago at this time. It was May 2019, the high temperature in Columbus was 82 degrees and the S&P 500 was within a few dozen points of where it is today. Then, our biggest worries were trade concerns with China. Today, at similar levels in the S&P […]

To Inspire… I (Matt) am in a men’s faith sharing group that is focused on becoming better husbands and fathers. It’s a Catholic group and we’re using a workbook called LEAD, published by a ministry called Fathers of St. Joseph. Recently, via Zoom, we were discussing the most important roles that we have: to protect, […]

To Inform: Every Monday morning The Joseph Group’s management team gets together for our weekly leadership meeting. One of the items on the agenda each week is our “quick hitters” – items which will only take a minute or two to talk about in order to provide information or to make a quick decision. With […]

To Inspire: We’ve all been impacted by the COVID-19 quarantine in our own unique way. Much has been lost and we grieve that loss. Lost jobs, funerals and weddings, missing the birth of a grandchild, vacation memories, senior proms and graduations…the list goes on and on. In my (Todd) house, this past month we were grieving […]