perspectives

Since the COVID crisis began in the US in mid-February, we have all been learning to deal with the danger of becoming infected with the virus and the increasingly restrictive changes to our daily lives meant to slow its spread. Markets in turn have acted like a funhouse mirror…

Much has happened since our last interim commentary on February 27th, so we are reaching out to you with an update. We remain concerned for the health and safety of everyone close to us and around the world…

After narrowly escaping a bear market heading out of Q4 2018, the S&P 500 index of large cap US stocks ended 2019 with the fifth best annual return on record since 1962…

US markets continued higher in the third quarter, albeit at a slower pace and with more volatility…

Markets climbed higher during the second quarter, albeit at a more moderate pace than the first quarter.

After an abysmal end to 2018, most asset classes reversed course and have been rising steeply so far in 2019...

In our January 2018 commentary, we asked: “Can it get any better than this…or is this as good as it gets?”…

Entering the fourth quarter of 2018, most asset classes except for domestic stocks have delivered poor performance…

Markets remained volatile during the second quarter, with mixed performance across asset classes leading to lower returns in most market-segments than investors have come to expect…