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  • Kinder, Gentler Resolutions

    January 26, 2024

    To Inspire: Believe it or not, here we are at the last weekend of January. How are your 2024 resolutions going? If you are struggling already, don’t feel bad. The second Friday in January is known as Quitters Day – the day when many people give up on their resolutions. So let me suggest a […]

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  • Fed Rate Cuts: Why is More Important Than When

    January 19, 2024

    To Inform:  Earlier this week, Alex and I hosted our January Portfolios Event – “7 Themes Plus One More for 2024.” One of those themes discussed our view on one of the biggest questions we are receiving from clients – potential interest rate cuts by the Fed in 2024. All signs point to the Fed […]

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  • Fighting the Winter Blues

    January 19, 2024

    To Inspire: Got the winter blues? The medical community calls this seasonal affective disorder (SAD), an actual depression that can happen, most often in winter. The causes are not entirely clear but the shorter days (less sunlight) are thought to trigger a chemical change in the brain that brings about depression-type symptoms. SAD can impact […]

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  • Election Themes in 2024

    January 12, 2024

    To Inspire: In a year where close to 40% of both global population and global GDP head to the polls, I thought it might be interesting to unpack some of the 2024 political themes our research partners are sharing with us. If you read last week’s Wealthnotes you might recall the average performance of the […]

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  • A Heartwarming Gift

    January 12, 2024

    To Inspire:   One woman’s dream of becoming an author came true this holiday season, with a little help from her grandson. In 1972, Barbara Rieco wrote a children’s book. Despite her best efforts to find a publisher, rejection after rejection followed. More than forty years later, her grandson Chad Cooper decided to publish the […]

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  • Optimistic About 2024

    January 5, 2024

    To Inform: Last night we had a get together to celebrate my daughter’s 18th birthday. We were standing in the kitchen and my father-in-law asked me, “What do you think about the markets this year? If you look at the news you have some people who think it’s going to be a great year and […]

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  • SMART Resolutions

    January 5, 2024

    To Inspire: New Year’s resolutions – over one third of Americans make them but most drop them quickly. A recent Forbes study found that 23% of those making New Year’s resolutions will drop them after only one week and 80% will have abandoned them by March. Only 9% stick with them for an entire year. […]

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  • Potential Market Surprise for Foreign Stocks in 2024?

    December 22, 2023

    To Inform: With four trading days left in 2023, we do not believe it is too early to start looking forward toward markets in 2024. Earlier this week, Alex Durbin shared a piece with The Joseph Group’s Investment Committee written by Strategas’ Head of Technical and Macro Research, Chris Verrone. Verrone was sharing “guesses” of […]

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  • Intangible Gifts for the Holiday Season

    December 22, 2023

    To Inspire: Dear Clients and Friends – As is always the case, people from all faith traditions are once again joining Christians in celebrating the Christmas season. For Christians, we celebrate the birth of God’s son who takes on our humanity to reveal God’s love and to suffer and die in atonement for our sins. […]

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  • Gradually, Then Suddenly

    December 15, 2023

    To Inform: The phrase “Gradually, then suddenly” entered the vernacular through Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises. While the characters in Hemingway’s novel were discussing how one of them went bankrupt, we get to talk about a much more pleasing subject, and that is Fed interest rate policy (I said pleasing, not fun!). To borrow […]

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