Ferguson Wellman
Investment Excellence Lifelong Relationships
Customized investment portfolios for individuals, families, foundations, endowments, corporate retirement, and pension plans starting at $4 million
Investment Excellence Lifelong Relationships
Customized investment portfolios for individuals, families, foundations, endowments, corporate retirement, and pension plans starting at $4 million
News and Views from Ferguson Wellman and West Bearing Investments
During the decade I spent in San Francisco, I had the pleasure of working with a great economist and investor from 2015 to 2019. Those years proved formative for my investing career, and I learned much from my time there. Recently, I have been reminded of an adage of his. After a short period of strong performance, he would exclaim, “We had a good year this month!”, meaning the portfolio returned what we considered a good year's worth of returns in a fraction of the time. Given the robust performance of the stock market over the last several months, I have been reminded of this saying more than a few times.
Would you have believed us if we had told you on January 1 that the S&P 500 would be up nearly 10% year-to-date after last year’s 25% jump?
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