In the third quarter, domestic equity market values continued to increase, reaching new, all-time highs. The strong performance was driven by the ongoing results of last year’s tax cuts, which have boosted corporate profits throughout the year. Markets continue to discount potential bad news, notably,...
September 15, 2018, marked the tenth anniversary of what many consider the key event of the global financial crisis (“GFC”): the fall of the venerable Wall Street firm, Lehman Brothers. On this tenth anniversary, our quarterly letter will touch on some root causes of the...
FIRST Selling everything and going to cash is generally a suboptimal investment decision. There is an old Wall Street saying that the market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent. Many great investors have been humbled by acting too early, even if they were...
In an age where security breaches and cyberattacks dominate the headlines, personal security is a concern for everyone. The good news is that if you take a few precautions, you can greatly reduce the chances that you will be a target for fraud. We recently...
Heard from Clients Symposium: Findings from Our Conversation We recently met with a group of clients and colleagues to discuss a challenge that many wealthy families face. We've all seen the worst: heirs of the wealthy and famous with everything who seem to value nothing. That may...
In our last quarterly update, we discussed the implementation of tariffs and barriers to trade involving the U.S. and its trade partners including China, the EU, Canada and Mexico. Since then, the brewing trade war has only intensified, and the economy is beginning to feel...
As we commented in our last quarterly letter, the yield curve has been flattening, and is moving toward becoming inverted. An inverted yield curve occurs when long-term yields fall below short-term yields. The difference in these yields is measured by a spread. When the spread...
In general, we feel it’s pretty rare for investors to have opportunities to make outsized returns. Doing so typically requires you to “walk into a burning building and write a check.” We use that phrase with clients all the time because we think it captures...
On March 1, 2018, President Trump announced via Twitter that “trade wars are good, and easy to win.” Soon thereafter, the White House floated the idea of a 25% tariff on all imported steel and 10% on all imported aluminum to disadvantage imports and support...