INSIGHTS
Market Commentary 12/31/2021
By: Matt Garrott What Happened in 2021 US stocks did very well while International stocks climbed but lagged the US. The Barclays Aggregate Bond Index was down slightly, but Municipal Bonds and TIPS were up. Even though a moderate portfolio likely had a higher return than [...]
Market Commentary 11/30/2021
By: Matt Garrott The S&P 500 was down 0.7% in November as a new COVID variant was discovered. Equity markets fell 2% on the Friday after Thanksgiving or “Bleak Friday” as Schwab’s Liz Ann Sonders is calling it. Once again we saw that when risk assets [...]
Mark Weiskind Named as Notable Wealth Manager by Crain’s Cleveland Business
Fairway congratulates co-founder and senior wealth manager Mark Weiskind for being named by Crain’s Cleveland Business in its inaugural listing of notable wealth managers in Northeast Ohio. These notable wealth managers share the same goal of providing ethical, honest and productive financial management, specializing in wealth management and [...]
Dow 36,000
By: Matt Garrott Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market was a book published in 1999 that predicted the Dow Jones Industrial Average would hit 36,000 within 5 years. The Dow topped out at 11,750 before the Tech [...]
Market Commentary 9/30/2021
By: Matt Garrott Commodities were up 6.6% for the quarter, while the Energy and Materials sectors were down. Two Federal Reserve presidents resigned amid a securities trading controversy. Major political uncertainties swirl around the debt ceiling and spending bills. Supply chain issues are pushing inflation up. [...]
Does Tomato Belong in Fruit Salad?
By: Matt Garrott I saw an infographic on social media recently with a breakdown of COVID infections in the United States by county. What caught my eye was the state with the fewest infections – Louisiana with zero. How could this be? The author’s reply in [...]