by JD Gardner | Mar 5, 2024 | Market Updates
We group portfolio risk into two categories: Longevity Risk Drawdown Risk (A form of volatility risk) Risk #2 dominates the minds of most advisors and clients we speak with. Behaviorally, most of us have an aversion to losses. Mathematically, large drawdowns are...
by JD Gardner | Feb 6, 2024 | Market Updates
Very few days pass that don’t involve a cast net being thrown at our house. I’m not sure I can think of anything I’d rather do than throw the net with my crew. My kids have grown up learning early and often because in lower Alabama, it’s a necessary skill if you enjoy...
by Aptus PM Team | Feb 5, 2024 | 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: Earnings Update Projected Rate Cuts Market...
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...
