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by Kevin Kern Founding Partner Going through life searching for happiness can certainly bring some disappointment.  But going through life searching for meaning and purpose can bring serenity.  This can also be true with investing.  The purpose of your portfolio will determine the level of serenity you are having this year as the S&P 500 is...
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by Dr. JoAnne Feeney The market has been behaving like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde over the past month, bouncing between good and bad news. Which personality will arrive this week? The extent of uncertainty applies to this year’s earnings, but also 2021 and 2022. As we’ve noted before, we are in a strange situation where...
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by Dr. Charles Lieberman The surge in Covid 19 cases unnerved investors this past week, which is understandable. People did get complacent as various states reopened, particularly those that hadn’t been hit hard when the pandemic first arrived in the U.S. So, infections spiked notably in places that hadn’t previously been subjected to large numbers of...
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by John Bruggemann, CFP On Tuesday, June 23, the IRS announced a few important modifications to the original changes made by the CARES Act regarding RMDs (required minimum distributions) taken from an IRA and defined contribution plans in 2020. As you may recall, the CARES Act waived 2020 RMDs as well as first-time 2019 RMDs delayed...
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by David Lieberman When we wrote our last C19 memo on June 8, we had expected C19 cases to continue a gradual decline. Instead, states with lower case counts reopened early, people were surprisingly complacent, and cases have actually increased sharply in select states, even as cases continued to fall in what had previously been high...
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by Kevin Kelly Portfolio Manager During the first half of 2020, fixed income yields moved substantially, behaving far more volatile than normal and deviating from historical levels of normal volatility (perhaps the understatement of the year!). Consequently, almost every fixed income portfolio has seen the widest swings in principle values since the Global Financial Crisis. All...
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by Dr. JoAnne Feeney Portfolio Manager Earnings season got off to a rocky start, but that was to be expected. Comments from management teams regarding the future were laced with cautious sentiment. Even though most investors understand that companies will struggle to estimate this year’s sales and earnings, they are still hoping that companies have some...
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by David Lieberman Managing Partner, Portfolio Manager Quick Summary United States • Case count over the weekend didn’t decline as much as forecast, although Sunday’s growth of cases of 25,000 was the lowest since March 31st. Case growth slowed to 3.4% yesterday down from 4.1% and 4.7% the prior two days. • The slowing trend continues,...
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by Jeff Deiss CFP, AEP, Wealth Advisor There are certain aspects of our financial lives over which we have some control – our career and how long we work, or how much we spend or save. And there are other aspects which we cannot control, like the daily ups and downs in the stock market or...
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Clients should consider need vs. want when it comes to future income distributions. During the 2008 financial crisis as well as the collapse of oil prices in 2015-16 we found that those clients that could reduce or suspend their monthly income distributions faired far better during each recovery. Currently we have both the oil and...
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