Maximizing Your Cash Reserves: Expert Advice with Anthony Goring, Investment Associate If you have substantial cash reserves in your account with a low return rate, you may want to consider taking the following actions: 1. Evaluate your financial goals and risk tolerance: Before making any investment decisions, it’s essential to consider your financial goals, risk tolerance, and investment time horizon. Are you saving for a short-term goal or a long-term goal? How comfortable are you with taking risks? 2. Explore …
2022 Q4 Investment Update
The FED Moves Forward by Looking Backward The FED’s stated mission is to ensure price stability and full employment, which explains the heavy focus on inflation and unemployment data. Unfortunately, both of those series represent lagging indicators that only see the impacts of monetary policy after delays that are long and variable. In times like this, when inflation is running uncomfortably high, the FED almost has no choice but to tighten policy aggressively, despite the risks ahead, to bring that …
From The Desk Of John Vance: To Our Vance Wealth Friends & Family
At Vance Wealth, we’ve been spending the summer months refining some of our internal systems, so we can continue to grow and build a company culture that everyone feels invested in. We kicked off the summer by switching up a few aspects of our internship program, in order to make it more successful for our interns and our firm. One of things we identified, after a few years of running the program, was how much of an impact we could …
How We Support You During Turbulent Times
When we look back on the past two years, there’s one word we’d use to describe the market: volatile. Yet as we look ahead, the only thing we’re sure of is that the volatility is here to stay. But that doesn’t mean it’s time to panic. In fact, at Vance Wealth, we don’t think it’s necessarily a bad thing – because we prepare for this kind of market every day. We take extraordinary measures to protect our clients in difficult …
2022 Quarter 3 Investment Update
Summer is in full swing, and it is another hot one! We hope your summer has been spent with the ones that matter most and not in front of the TV watching the news. Is the world coming to an end? No, but one may think so, based off recent headlines in the media. Some clients have said, “It just feels different this time around.” Well, in some ways it is, and in other ways the recent volatility and course-correcting …
2022 – Q1 Investment Update
Dear Clients and Friends, 2021 was a banner year for equities, as enormous fiscal and monetary stimulus through the pandemic supported the strongest economic and earnings growth in decades during the reopening. The S&P 500 Index experienced minimal volatility while returning 28.71% (largest intra-year pullback being just 5.2%), though there was plenty of action beneath the surface. In addition to the rollout of vaccines, markets were supported by several other positive developments, including strong corporate earnings and increased consumer demand. …
2021 Q4 – Investment Update
Fall is upon us! Neighbors are dusting off their ghouls and goblins and decorating for Halloween. Once Thanksgiving arrives, it seems like the year ends within a blink of an eye and 2022 is here. Not that long ago did our uphill journey begin from the depths of the “COVID Correction” ravine. Now it’s time to catch our breath and peer over the horizon at what’s to come as we begin our descent from this peak. However, just as the …
2021 – Q3 Market Update
We hope you are all enjoying your summer! It is another hot one in Southern California, almost as hot as the real estate market. I know the Vance Wealth team has been trying to beat the heat by heading to the beach or spending time in the pool this summer. However you are trying to beat the heat, we hope you are getting some sort of relief. What if I told you the S&P 500 is up almost 90% …
2021 Q1 Investment Update
We hope all our clients, professional partners, and members of our community have remained happy and healthy and are looking forward to a new year. Typically, when we write a market update, we gather information from our investment partners and decide what makes sense to share with our readers. I thought our partners at Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) did a great job on their article titled “Market Review 2020: Looking Back on an Unprecedented Year,” and wanted to share it …
Looking Back To Grow Forward
After a year like 2020, it might be tempting to jump straight into 2021 and never look back. Last year, we all experienced massive disruption and change to our personal and professional lives, and everyone is eager to return to some sense of normalcy. But moving forward without a clear picture of 2020’s impact on your life and finances will leave blind spots in your planning, and you may miss out on some important opportunities to course correct. To create …