INSIGHTS

By: Matt Garrott The S&P 500 got off to a hot start this year, up over 10% in the first quarter, but it may make sense to focus on what hasn’t happened this year rather than what has happened. Coming into 2024, forecasters expected 6 or [...]

By: Matt Garrott February may be the shortest month of the year, but that doesn’t mean it was boring.  The S&P 500 was up 5.3%, breaking through the 5,000 mark and new all-time highs.  As you can see below, it took the S&P 500 nearly 50 [...]

By: Matt Garrott The S&P 500 broke through to new all-time highs for the first time in 512 trading days (over two years).  As mentioned in our year-end commentary, all-time highs are not ceilings.  Research from Goldman Sachs shows that this is only the seventh time [...]

By: Matt Garrott What Happened in 2023 2023 was a surprise to the upside.  Inflation dropped, a much-anticipated recession never arrived, and the S&P gained 26.3%.  Famed investor Peter Lynch said, “Far more money has been lost by investors preparing for corrections, or trying to anticipate [...]

By: Matt Garrott The story of the S&P 500 this year is the Magnificent 7.  That is, the seven largest companies in the index by market cap (it’s 8 tickers because Google has two share classes).  The S&P is up over 20% year-to-date, mainly because of [...]

By: Maria Hinton Making a Difference, Fairway Volunteers at the Metro Parks for Litter Cleanup Litter, in all its forms, poses a significant environmental and aesthetic challenge for communities around the world. Whether it's a plastic bottle tossed carelessly from a car window or discarded food [...]