The February natural gas contract settled at $2.953 on the final trading day of the year, capping off another exciting year of trading. That comes in 79.1 cents below the last settle of 2016, or a fall of 21.1% on the year (though a large chunk of that selling came in the first few days…
McClellan Financial says an eight-year cycle for gold is about to start and the next five years will likely be good ones. Via email from Tom McClellan, please consider Gold’s 8-Year Cycle. We are now entering the upward phase of gold’s 8-year cycle, and that should bring some fun gains. And this comes at a…
We all tend to understand the concept of productivity as it is used in a business setting. Business productivity is a measure of the efficiency of an organization. That is, in this context productivity represents the ability of a firm to manage its resources as well as possible to produce profitable goods or services. In…
On Friday afternoon, we brought you “Requiem For 2017: The Year In Charts,” a visual guide to what, by most accounts (double entendre alert), was a stellar 2017 for investors. At this point, you’re probably exhausted with year-ahead outlooks, forecasts, “top themes”, and the like. Indeed, if you can’t regurgitate the ubiquitous “Goldilocks” narrative off…
Incepted in 1988, Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) offers financial services including investment and advisory solutions, and risk-management expertise to institutional and individual investors throughout the globe. With more than $1 trillion assets under management, GSAM is considered one of the world’s leading financial management companies. GSAM prides itself in having more than 2,000 professionals…
As we look toward the beginning of another year, talk of acronyms such as FANG (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix Google/Alphabet) and FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google/ Alphabet) continues. Analysts generally expect the FAANG stock performance to remain strong in early 2018, but not all of the stocks tend to be equal at this time of…
A selloff in the final trading minutes of the year pushed stocks into the red for the shortened holiday week. Technology stocks lagged for the week, led by Apple after some analysts suggested demand for the iPhone X was lower than expected and there was backlash against throttling performance of older phones. The market’s muted…
With the New Year approaching, maybe it’s time to consider a new approach to investing. Unlike most forms of portfolio construction, Portfolio Armor’s hedged portfolio method eschews diversification. It looks radical at first glance: instead of allocating your investor’s assets among dozens of individual securities, you put their money in up to 8 names, some…
