INSIGHTS
Red Hot Stock Market
By: Matt Garrott The stock market is either red-hot, extremely average, or still in recovery depending on your perspective. Let’s torture the data until it tells us what we want to hear. The red-hot stock market The S&P 500 is up 18.5% and we’re only halfway [...]
RCDP Fundraiser
By: Chris Martin For the third year, Fairway Wealth Management had the privilege of sponsoring the RhizoKids Ohio annual fundraiser on May 11th, 2019 at St. Adalberts in Berea, Ohio. Rhizokids supporters enjoyed a dinner followed by an evening of raffles, horse races, and auctions. The [...]
Hit the Mute Button
By: Matt Garrott The month of May was not kind to equity markets as the S&P 500 dropped 6%. International stocks were down for the month, too. The EAFE lost 5% while Emerging Markets were down 7%. Sell in May and go away? We don’t think [...]
Market Timing: Danger Danger
By: Mark Weiskind Most investors, and certainly all our clients, know that market timing (i.e. trying to move in and out of the stock market based on a prediction of the future) is a bad idea. I recently read an article with some data that really [...]
Market Commentary Q1 2019
By: Matt Garrott 2019 is off to a hot start as the S&P 500 gained 13.7%. Will the market keep up this pace for the rest of the year? It’s unlikely, but the “pace” is also a bit misleading. We have not yet made up the [...]
Kraft Heinz
By: Matt Garrott This Commentary Brought to You in Part by Macaroni and Cheese The latest earnings report for Kraft Heinz was a shocker. Operating results were flat, there was a huge impairment ($15.4 billion) of goodwill, and the dividend was cut by 40%. On top [...]