by Colin Symons, CFA | May 29, 2019 | Uncategorized
I feel like I witnessed a sadly common investor behavior tragedy over the last several weeks. Markets kept going up in April for a variety of reasons. In my opinion, probably the primary reason is that people started getting nervous that the market was going up...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Apr 16, 2019 | Uncategorized
I live in a world of macro and fundamentals. The basic reason for this is that I can’t think of a situation where they didn’t inform me of the future. Together, macro and fundamentals can tell us quite a lot about longer term stock market potential. The...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Mar 21, 2019 | Uncategorized
There are two basic ways to invest in the market. You can either stick your finger in the air and invest however the wind is blowing or you can have a process, a lens through which to view a broader spectrum of factors to invest assets. It seems obvious to me which...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Feb 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
Stocks for the Long Run by Jeremy Siegel, first published in 1994, is broadly considered one of the best investment books of all time. As the title implies, the idea is that in the long term, stocks win for compounding wealth. That has certainly broadly been the case,...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Feb 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
We’ve certainly had a rip-roaring start to the year. The first question is, is that deserved? What happened to create this great start? My belief is that two basic things happened to create the big January. First, markets got deeply oversold in December, and...
by Colin Symons, CFA | Jan 24, 2019 | Uncategorized
Around Christmas, when the market was down about 19% from its September 2018 peak, I wrote a blog (Don’t Panic! – December 28) urging people not to participate in the market panic that was going on at the time. Was that good advice? It would be hard for it not...
