Investment Insights Archive - Page 4 of 6

Bonds Bounce Back After posting the worst quarterly decline since 1981 in the first quarter, it should not come as a shock the sector

In the recently released Q1 2021 Investment Insight newsletter, we commented that no changes were being made to the asset allocations being

Hitting on All Cylinders With the recent one-year anniversary of the equity market indices’ pandemic driven lows, it seems appropriate to

Standard & Poor’s 500 (S&P 500) Index’s first quarter 2021 performance of 5.8% has contributed to the index being up 19% from

The Worst Is Behind Us Bond markets posted a decline of 3.4% this quarter – their worst return since 1981, as the 10-year U.S. Treasury

What a year it was! Looking back over this past year seems as if one was in a dream. 2020 started where 2019 left off as equity markets

Beating Expectations Fixed income returns for the quarter were positive as corporate bonds excelled. Shorter duration Treasuries remain

Two Steps Forward While there are many adjectives that could be used to describe the experience for investors in 2020, one that is surely

Head in the Clouds We hear a lot of derision when the stock market is used as an economic indicator. The skepticism is understandable, and

Sticking the Landing It is somewhat unsurprising the humble Midwest town of Des Moines, Iowa, is a hotbed for gymnastics, having been the

The Road to Recovery With the release of the final estimate of second quarter GDP, the severity of the pandemic-induced lockdown of the

Whatever It Takes The quarter began with continued Federal Reserve (Fed) policy actions to stem the significant decline in economic