Time to Read: 9 Minutes Last week, Brown Wealth Management continued to reduce interest rate risk in our tactical portfolios by reducing duration across the board. Duration is a measure of the sensitivity of the price of a bond to a change in interest rates. As rates move up or down, higher duration portfolios will move more in price than lower duration portfolios. Our portfolios are now
Time to Read: 5 Minutes ESG is one of the fastest-growing themes within the investment world, quickly gaining prominence across the spectrum of financial products from ETFs to specialized, custom strategies. The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment reports that total U.S.-domiciled sustainably invested assets under management grew 42% between 2018 and 2020. They now represent 33% of the $51.4 trillion
Time to Read: 8 Minutes During our recent webinar, we discussed the Ned Davis Research (NDR) S&P 500 Cycle Composite—a unique chart that raised a lot of questions from our clients. Shown below for 2021, the cycle composite creates a roadmap for a given year in the stock market by placing equal weights on
Time to Read: 7 minutes At Brown Wealth Management, one of our key rules to investing is don’t fight the trend. How does this apply to today’s residential real estate market? As shown below, the trend in residential real estate has clearly been on an upward trajectory since the financial crisis, with real home
Time to Read: 8 minutes At Brown Wealth Management, we believe you can assess how the market should be acting by looking at a combination of macroeconomic conditions and fundamentals. Over the long run, the market generally does what it should. But, as noted by famed economist John Maynard Keynes, the market can remain
Time to Read: 6 Minutes In our October webinar, we highlighted the potential for the election to create added volatility driven by the possibility of a contested or drawn-out process. In fact, the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) fell 6.5% the week prior to the election—its worst pre-election week on record, according to Ned
Time to Read: 5 Minutes After March delivered a historical drop in the stock market and ended the longest bull market on record, BWM rebalanced portfolios to move from an underweight position in stocks to an equal weight, taking advantage of attractive valuations and extreme pessimism. Yesterday, we rebalanced again for very similar reasons,
Time to Read: 7 Minutes 2020 has been a wild year so far—an unprecedented year, you could even say, as many memes do. And yet, another major event looms on the horizon: the presidential election, set against a backdrop of recession, global pandemic and social unrest. Here we consider how markets have behaved through
Time to Read: 5 Minutes Last month, Brown Wealth Management hosted a webinar titled “Is the Recession Over?” where we examined what appeared to be signs of a bottom in economic activity and the implications for markets and the economy in a COVID-19 world. The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) is a private, non-profit,
Time to Read: 7 Minutes The US unemployment rate jumped to 14.7% in April, the highest level since the Great Depression. Manufacturing activity plunged to an 11-year low. The Leading Economic Index posted the largest decline in its 60-year history. Full-year earnings estimates have tumbled downward across all sectors. While all this bad economic news