By Allison Bressi, Compliance & Administrative Manager At Versant Capital Management, we stay apprised of the latest information pertaining to ethical conduct in the financial industry. Recent studies by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA),...
Find out about the potential risks of market timing versus a buy-and-hold investment strategy Market timing is an investing strategy in which the investor tries to identify the best times to be in the market and when to get out. Market timing is often used by brokers,...
(Click for Part 1) (Click for Part 2) By Thomas Connelly Neoclassical economics posits two types of growth: capital deepening (or capital intensity) and growth from technological innovation. Capital deepening is the amount of capital deployed per worker. Developed...
By Thomas J. Connelly, CFA, CFP Chances are, you’ve noticed that the US stock market has offered booming returns over the past three or four years — up an average of 17.4% annualized in the past 36 months alone. Then you look at the money invested in...
By Thomas J. Connelly, CFA, CFP 1) Physical gold demand was not the problem, and has actually increased substantially since April. Indeed, the gold futures market is telling us there is a severe shortage of the metal at this time. The buyers are Asian...
