by Lori Eason | Dec 17, 2017 | Quarterly Commentary
The closely followed Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor’s 500 index had a remarkable year in 2017. The Dow gained an impressive 25% while the S&P 500 rose 19%, their best years since 2013. The tech-heavy Nasdaq was the clear winner for the year,...
by Lori Eason | Sep 22, 2017 | Financial Planning, Market Related
My guess is that all of you have heard about the recent cyberattack against Equifax that potentially exposed the personal information of 143 million people, nearly half the U.S. population. Many of you have probably used the site Equifax created to check and see if...
by Lori Eason | Sep 17, 2017 | Quarterly Commentary
Since last year’s presidential election, the stock market has been on an absolute tear. Most of the major U.S. stock averages are up roughly 17% since then. The biggest chunk of these gains came immediately after the election in November. However, just as the market...
by Lori Eason | Aug 17, 2017 | Financial Planning
Last week, I went to the biannual Schwab Advisor Solutions conference and it motivated me to write about some of Schwab’s tools that our clients may be missing out on. I pulled up our most recent technology adoption scorecard which gives us some very informative...
by Lori Eason | Jun 17, 2017 | Quarterly Commentary
Stocks continued to rise through the second quarter, albeit at about half the rate of the first quarter. The large cap group had the best quarterly performance with the S&P 500 returning roughly 3%. Mid and small cap stocks increased as well but about a percentage...
