Every bear market rally lures investors into (wrongly) believing a new bull market is underway. SMI's process helps you avoid getting taken in by shorter-term trends.
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With inflation running hot, inflation-linked U.S. government "Series I" bonds are the best deal going in the fixed-income universe. So it's not surprising that I-Bonds have become attractive for education-related
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Once a month, Mark Biller provides a half-hour video update for SMI Private Client investors. Mark is the Senior Portfolio Manager for Private Client, as well as serving as the Executive Editor for the SMI
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The Fed's Quantitative Easing supplied extra money to the financial markets. Now, comes Quantitative Tightening. If the goal of QE was to boost asset prices, the goal of QT is to lower them.
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There's a perception that the Fed hasn't done much yet to counter inflation and that this battle will basically begin at their May meeting.
That's largely accurate, as the Fed has been way behind the curve in dealing with
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Commodities, real estate, and certain other investments that once had little appeal to the average investor — and were largely out of reach anyway — have become more mainstream and accessible.
And, as SMI executive editor
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It has been a wild start to 2022. This has obviously been true in the "real world" as the world deals with a major European land war for the first time in decades.
It's also been true in financial markets, as the
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March 29, 2022
Phil Huber
The “60-40” stock/bond portfolio that's served investors well for decades is no longer sufficient. Fortunately, today’s investors have access to a range of other investments that can generate good
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A few quick thoughts on the day of the first Fed rate hike since 2018...
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The reshaping of the government-debt "yield curve" isn't exactly a riveting news story. It doesn't command the kind of attention appropriately afforded to geopolitical conflict or rising prices at the gas pump.
Still,
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