by Aptus PM Team | Jan 23, 2024 | Market Updates
When we made the Aptus Compounders sleeve available to advisors in 2018, we never put much thought into the actual strategy name. It just came naturally to us, and we ran with it. We didn’t put much thought into how the name embodied exactly what we were looking to...
by Aptus PM Team | Jan 4, 2024 | Appearances, Market Updates
Investors waded into 2023 with fresh scar tissue after 2022, which was a year worth forgetting as the S&P 500 shed 19% and the Nasdaq 100 dropped 33%. “An imminent recession” in 2023 was the consensus view heading into the year, yet this depressed sentiment has...
by JD Gardner | Jan 4, 2024 | Market Updates
Investors should have one goal – to compound capital. A sufficient compounded return is at the heart of all things related to financial goals. That’s our goal in 2024. To provide the best solutions possible to improve your compounded returns, and to be excellent in...
by Aptus PM Team | Dec 21, 2023 | Market Updates
Who Is John Galt? In 1957, Ayn Rand, an anti-statist public intellectual, wrote her magnum opus – Atlas Shrugged. The best-selling dystopian novel depicted a United States devastated by excessive taxation and government regulation. At its core, Ayn Rand’s main...
by JD Gardner | Dec 6, 2023 | Market Updates
“By continuing the process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily, and, while the process impoverishes...
by Derek Hernquist | Dec 5, 2023 | Market Updates
Given the popularity of our weekly Market in Pictures, we thought it made sense to pick out a few and go into more detail with our PMs. In this edition, Dave and John Luke will spend a few minutes on each of the following: Equal-weighted S&P 500 vs. Cap-weighted...
