A Wealth of Advice

Recessions and the Stock Market

In today's episode Nicholas Olesen, CFP®, CPWA® [https://www.kathmere.com/team/nicholas-olesen-cfp] talks with Nicholas Ryder, CFA® [https://www.kathmere.com/team/nick-ryder-cfa], Kathmere Capital's Chief Investment Officer, about a recent commentary he wrote to answer questions about how much the stock market is impacted by a recession. For the charts discussed during the podcast and the original commentary, please visit: http://bit.ly/KCM-BLOG [http://bit.ly/KCM-BLOG]  Please reach out for help or send us feedback and any topic or questions you would like us to cover.  Email us at: nolesen@kathmere.com [nolesen@kathmere.com]

The Silver Lining To A Market Pullback

In today's episode Nicholas Olesen, CFP®, CPWA® [https://www.kathmere.com/team/nicholas-olesen-cfp] talks about one of the best part about a market pullback, tax savings. Rather than spend 30 minutes on all that it entails and multiple examples of how it works, this episode will cut right to how our investment team utilizes tax-loss harvesting.  In a recent published paper in the Financial Analysts Journal, and then summarized in an article from Vanguard, by implementing these strategies investors could benefit as much as 0.92% annually. There are not a lot of guarantees from investing, but tax savings is one guarantee we can take advantage of.  We would love to help!  Please reach out for help or send us feedback and any topic or questions you would like us to cover.  Email us at: nolesen@kathmere.com [nolesen@kathmere.com]

Why Does This Market Decline Feels So Much Worse?

In today's episode Nicholas Olesen, CFP®, CPWA® [https://www.kathmere.com/team/nicholas-olesen-cfp] shares why this 10% pullback in the stock market feels so much worse and that data that validates those feelings. "How is the market only down 10%?" is a common question in recent conversations with investors and we believe it's a very fair feeling. Rather than just respond with, that's a normal pullback or it'll come back, we thought it would be more helpful to dive into the underlying reasons this feeling makes sense. Here's the three main reasons we expand on: * Stocks and bonds are both down more than 10% so far this year, the largest joint drawdown since the late 1970's. * The drawdown has been much, much worse for many stocks * The largest and most commonly owned companies have also pulled back more You can see the charts referenced by visiting: www.kathmere.com/blog [http://www.kathmere.com/blog]

An Innovative Approach to Investing in Emerging Markets

In today's episode Nicholas Olesen, CFP®, CPWA® [https://www.kathmere.com/team/nicholas-olesen-cfp] & Nicholas Ryder, CFA® [https://www.kathmere.com/team/nick-ryder-cfa] talk with Perth Tolle, who brings an innovative way to invest in and view emerging markets, through a freedom analysis.  With the events of today, Russia's horrific invasion of and war against Ukraine, many investors may be asking how they can allocate to emerging markets but stay clear of investing in areas of autocracy. As you will hear, Perth created the Freedom 100 Emerging Markets Index [https://www.lifeandlibertyindexes.com/], which is a freedom-weighted equity strategy that uses personal and economic freedom metrics as primary factors in its investment process to invest in emerging markets. You can find the video interview and transcript by visiting: https://www.kathmere.com/blog [https://www.kathmere.com/blog]  We would love to help!  Please reach out for help or send us feedback and any topic or questions you would like us to cover.  Email us at: nolesen@kathmere.com [nolesen@kathmere.com]

Be An Optimistic Investor and Pessimistic Saver

In today's episode, Nicholas Olesen, CFP®, CPWA® [https://www.kathmere.com/team/nicholas-olesen-cfp] shares how seductive pessimism can be and why it's so hard but advantageous to be an optimistic investor. With what feels like a world getting closer and closer to WWIII, it’s understandable that, from an investing perspective, you can start to feel concerned.  However, as Nicholas shares, allowing history to be your gauge, not market pundits selling fear, can help you stay the course. To learn more about our firm and how we help our clients, visit: https://www.kathmere.com/ [https://www.kathmere.com/]  We would love to help!  Please reach out for help or send us feedback and any topic or questions you would like us to cover.  Email us at: nolesen@kathmere.com [nolesen@kathmere.com]