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What Have You Done for Me Lately?

Recency bias is a powerful emotion that leads investors to focus on investing in what is working right now, resulting in the over-allocation to outperforming asset classes and abandonment of […]

October 20, 2019 | Natural Resources |

Yields Continue to Fall

The third quarter was another volatile one for credit markets, with yields across the maturity spectrum falling as markets continue to price in a slowing economic environment. On the short […]

October 20, 2019 | Fixed Income |

Continuing Care Retirement Communities

Starting in 2011, the first wave of “baby-boomers” – Americans born between 1946 and 1964 – reached retirement age. The term tsunami may be more apropos than wave, however. According […]

October 20, 2019 | Financial Planning |

OPCM’s Thoughts on Yield Curve Inversion

In life and in economic cycles, there are key milestones. A key one for the economy was hit August 14, 2019: The 10-year U.S. Treasury yield was less than 2-year […]

August 16, 2019 | Articles , Economics |

Safe Is Not Safe Anymore

Click here to view a PRINT VERSION of this article. Historically, two sectors with consistently slow earnings growth have been utilities and consumer staples.  Over the long-term, these two sectors […]

July 14, 2019 | Global Equities |

IPO: It’s Probably Overpriced?

Click here to view a PRINT VERSION of this article. We have long known that 2019 held the potential to be somewhat of an IPO extravaganza – a year in […]

July 14, 2019 | Economics |

Psychology and Money: A Primer on Behavioral Finance

Click here to view a PRINT VERSION of this article. Picture this: It’s a bright summer day and you decide to take a visit to your local botanical gardens to […]

July 14, 2019 | Financial Planning |

Credit Markets: A Historic Quarter

Click here to download a PRINT VERSION of this article. At the end of March, the benchmark ten-year U.S. Treasury was yielding 2.41%. The second quarter saw yields on the […]

July 14, 2019 | Fixed Income |

Do the Recent Yield Curve Inversions Guarantee a Recession?

Click here to download a PRINT VERSION of this article. Since 2006, the only inversions investors studied were inversions involving multi-national companies relocating their headquarters and legal residence to countries […]

April 14, 2019 | Economics |

Housing, Homebuilders, and Corrections…

Click here to download a PRINT VERSION of this article. In the ten years since the financial crisis, housing markets have recovered, stock markets have eclipsed their prior highs, and […]

April 14, 2019 | Real Estate |

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Authors

  • Aaron Szager, CFP
  • Alexandra Sandberg, CFP®, ChFC®, ECA
  • Ben Viemeister, CFA
  • Charles Osborne
  • Chuck Else
  • Dan Haut, CFA, CFP®, CIMA®
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  • Jay Skaalen, CFA, CFP®
  • Jim Baer
  • Justin McNichols, CFA
  • Karen McMillan, CFP®
  • Tom Piro, CFP®, Enrolled Agent
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