In the video, George Hosfield, CFA, principal and chief investment officer, explains why we believe this ninth year of economic expansion and related bull market for equities will extend into 2018.
Q1 2018 Investment Strategy Video
Outlook 2018
As the U.S. economy enters its 10th-consecutive year of growth, significantly it has been joined by an increasingly synchronized expansion of the major world economies. Though asset prices across-the-board are elevated at this stage of the economic cycle, we believe that in 2018 equity investors stand to benefit from further economic expansion and lower corporate tax rates that together could result in another year of double-digit earnings growth.
Q4 2017 Investment Strategy Video
2017 Q4 Market Letter
Q3 2017 Investment Strategy Video
2017 Q3 Market Letter
Q2 2017 Investment Strategy Video
2017 Q2 Market Letter
Q1 2017 Investment Strategy Video
Outlook 2017
Eight years into a bull market, and U.S. stocks have pulled off a command performance in 2016. Brexit and a Republican sweep of the fall elections were outcomes that few anticipated, and ones that failed to produce the investment outcomes that many predicted. As the political landscape changed,
Q4 2016 Investment Strategy Video
2016 Q3 Market Letter
An unusually “quiet” August spawned new highs for U.S. stocks, but recent softness in economic data amid a contentious election season has given investors pause. Fundamentally, earnings have declined for five straight
Q3 2016 Investment Strategy Video
2016 Q2 Market Letter
Great Britain threw investors a curve ball with its vote to exit the 28-nation European Union. Leading up to the vote, equities and commodities strengthened in anticipation of just the opposite outcome, so the reaction in asset prices after the vote was predictable —stocks and commodities fell while bonds and gold rose.
Q2 2016 Investment Strategy Video
2016 Q1 Market Letter
What began as the worst start ever for stocks in early 2016 morphed into a market that recouped its early innings damage. As depicted in the accompanying chart, similarities between corrections observed last August and what just occurred are striking. In both cases, blue chip U.S. stocks fell by 12-13 percent because of growth scares emanating from China.
Q1 2016 Investment Strategy Video
Outlook 2016
Borrowing a theme from the 1993 comedy in which TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) fi nds himself reliving the same day over and over again, we believe that the global economic backdrop in 2016 will be very similar to that of the past year. To that end, modest economic growth, tame
Q4 2015 Investment Outlook Video
2015 Q3 Market Letter
Concerns about flagging growth in China and the implications for a global economy already experiencing slow expansion led to a broad equity sell-off last quarter. The correction in the S&P 500 was arguably overdue since the U.S. had gone nearly four years without declining by 10 percent or more.