Confidence in the Fed is high, but we focus on portfolio risk management just in case things aren’t as rosy as the market expects.
Confidence in the Fed is high, but we focus on portfolio risk management just in case things aren’t as rosy as the market expects.
Perversely, investors’ propensity to take on risk seems to increase the longer a cycle lasts and the higher past returns have been.
Despite all the optimism about improving global economic conditions, we think we’re transitioning to more challenging times.
This is the first time since 2010 that we have seen synchronized expansion and it seems reasonable to expect it to continue.
With historically low interest rates, investors looking for anything more than low single digit returns are forced into equity markets.
It has been eight years since the bottom of the last major bear market and economic recession. This marks the second longest bull market in Wall Street history.