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Buy low, sell high “Past performance is not a reliable indicator of future results.”  As fiduciary advisors, this statement is burned into our psyche at Bryant & Brannock.  We were reminded of this recently when our conversation with a client turned to his account performance since the latest rebalancing of his portfolio.  The positions we […]

What a Difference a Year Makes The end of this quarter marked a full year since the Coronavirus outbreak.  For the past year we had to change our daily routines in ways we could have never imagined.  We won’t list the litany of ways in which our lives were impacted – (we have all lived

Hey, 2020, Watch This! As we sat in the Covid-friendly environs of our living rooms on December 31, 2020, and quietly raised a toast to the new year, I am sure we were not alone in bidding a heartfelt farewell to 2020.  It felt good to put the preceding 12 months into the rearview mirror.

Throwing Out The Baby With The Bathwater The expression ‘Don’t throw out the baby with the bathwater!’ is one of those great old expressions that hasn’t lost it’s meaning over the centuries, even though we are long past the days of actually throwing out bathwater, and hopefully well past the time when water could be

The Certainty of Uncertainty Here at Bryant & Brannock, we subscribe and listen to a diverse set of analysts, economists and institutional investors.  They often draw very different conclusions from the same data points and their projections can vary widely.  We find the truth of the matter often falls somewhere in the middle ground.  In

Fighting Fear with Discipline The stock market has been in a state of mild panic for the past two weeks.  There are legitimate concerns about the Coronavirus and the impact it is having and may continue to have on the global economy.  Whether it is ultimately called an epidemic or a pandemic, we will only

Hindsight is 2020 You knew there was going to be a wordplay on 2020 somewhere in this dialogue, so we thought we would get it out of the way right up front.  As we can see clearly now, 2019 was a great year for the markets.  We just wish our 2020 vision for the upcoming

Summertime and the Living is Easy At the time of this writing, the S&P 500 and the Dow 30 indices are flirting with record highs…again.  The S&P 500 is up a remarkable 18.5%, year-to-date, as of June 30, 2019.  The impressive bull market run of the past decade continues to shrug off concerns about trade

Rapid Refund Forgive us for shamelessly borrowing a well-known income tax advertisement, but it is the season for taxes, and the stock markets gave us something of a Rapid Refund in the first quarter of 2019.  As shown in the chart above, virtually every asset class started the year strong, shaking off much of the

Reality Check The 4th quarter of 2018 was a brutal reminder of the inevitably uncertain nature of the equity markets.  2018 was shaping up to be another good year for US stocks.  We were poised for ten straight years of the S&P 500 Total Return Index recording positive annual gains, which had never happened before.  The