A Matter of Timing – Fifteen Years and Counting People love a good adage. “Don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” “The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.” “A penny saved is a penny earned.” “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” “Strike while the iron …
Fed Fund Rates – A Historical Perspective It is probably not a shock to anyone that we are a little bit nerdy here at Bryant & Brannock. We like math and numbers and statistics. It is fascinating stuff. Really. So, it is no surprise then that we spent much of our day today poring over …
A Year of Promise We are currently three weeks into 2023 and, so far, it seems to be carrying some of the positive momentum from the last quarter of 2022. Last year as a whole was brutal, with losses in virtually every asset class, but we did start to see signs of life in the …
Casting a Wide Net (and Coming Up Empty) At Bryant & Brannock, we are big believers in diversification. We think it is the most effective and reliable tool we have to help mitigate the risks of investing. We build our portfolios with a diverse set of asset classes and different sectors of the market specifically …
Piling On When we were kids, we played a game…well, it wasn’t actually a game, it was just a thing we did, where someone would shout out “Dog Pile” and someone else would jump on the ground and then everyone else would start piling on top of them. Laughing bodies stacked on top of laughing …
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 …