This is the final entry in our 2022 In Review series. It relates directly to the earlier posts in this series, so I recommend you do a quick review of it before reading this Part 4. Successfully Managing Investments in 2022 As 2021 was winding down, in the last few months we became increasingly concerned […]
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Recap In the first two installments of 2022 In Review we looked at how our model portfolio performed compared to the stock market (favorably) and why investments in index funds or funds and investment managers that mirror index funds too closely will likely underperform in coming years. If you haven’t read them, you might want
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RECAP In the first post of this series, I discussed the stock and bond markets’ performance for the year and compared that to our Model Portfolios upon which client portfolios are managed. Today, I want to talk a bit about why 2022 was a stock pickers market and why I believe that 2023 and beyond
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THE MARKETS We all lived through 2022 and it was an ugly year in the markets. Both stock and bond indexes were down in double digits and most of the investment world suffered severe losses for their clients. Here at BankChampaign, our clients faired much better than the markets overall, but we will discuss more
Just before the Beijing Olympics, Russia and China issued the statement below that is intended to change the world order. In it, it gave Russia permission (in political speak) to invade Ukraine and China to invade Taiwan (I’ve put that paragraph in bold below). George Soros wrote his analysis of this document which you can
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What’s Up With The Market? The S&P 500 peaked on January 4th and it has been a volatile ride down since that date. The prospect of rising inflation, the Federal Reserve increasing interest rates and reducing its balance sheet caught up with the major index even though the growth stocks in the index fell along
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THE DIGITAL FUTURE Leading up to the Dotcom Crash of 2000, we heard a significant amount about how the future was going to be different and that investing had changed. Companies were going public with minimal capital and little chance of ever being profitable. The Crash happened, and those companies disappeared, much as has happened
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Important Indicators Of Company Performance I like metrics. They give me a quick way to both monitor the performance of a company I own and to indicate whether further due diligence is warranted on a company I currently do not own. I use several metrics that give me a feel for how a company is
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Our Ranking System Our proprietary investment analysis system is able to rank the 1200 companies I keep in our database according to several factors. These factors lead us to six ranks based upon traditional investment concepts: Earnings Growth, Financial Strength, Value, Momentum, Quality and Fundamentals. Each of the rankings combines several financial ratios that reflect
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Our Ranking Our proprietary investment analysis system is able to rank the 1200 companies I keep in our database according to several factors. These factors lead us to six ranks based upon traditional investment concepts: Earnings Growth, Financial Strength, Value, Momentum, Quality and Fundamentals. Each of the rankings combines several financial ratios that reflect each
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Our Ranking Our proprietary investment analysis system is able to rank the 1200 companies I keep in our database according to several factors. These factors lead us to six ranks based upon traditional investment concepts: Earnings Growth, Financial Strength, Value, Momentum, Quality and Fundamentals. Each of the rankings combines several financial ratios that reflect each
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