INSIGHTS
The Biggest Risk as of August 2019
By: Matt Garrott Midway through August nearly every media outlet posted a RECESSION headline. Even the Cleveland Plain Dealer ran a front-page story. The yield curve had inverted (the yield on shorter maturity bonds was higher than longer maturities), leading some to jump to the conclusion [...]
Soylent Rate Cut
By: Matt Garrott With a trade war, the Fed’s rate cut, and election season ramping up (none of the challengers will say anything positive about the economy), you may be forgiven for thinking the investing environment is in shambles. However, even after the rough past week, [...]
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 [...]