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2022 Asset Class Returns: Year in Review

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Toward the end of last year’s “Year in Review” piece I wrote: “You may be in the camp of investors that sees a year like this year as an opportunity lost as opposed to a sign that we have entered dangerous stock market times.”  2021 was one of those years where the US stock market outperformed most other investment categories by enough that it may have been easy for investors to assume there was less risk in the market than there really was at the end of last year. Unfortunately, to many investors’ surprise, 2022 came along and proved that,…

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My Portfolio Has Lost Value—Now What?

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When your investments are going up, it’s easy to picture how you’ll react when they go down because you don’t really feel it.  Not at that moment.  In fact, you’re feeling pretty good, what with your investments going up and all.  It sure is different when the actual down period hits, though, isn’t it?  We are ten months into this current stock market downturn and a traditional diversified portfolio of half stocks and half bonds is down roughly -18%.  Our corresponding portfolios at Cadence are down a fair bit less than that, but more on that later.  Ten months into…

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What to Think of Interest Rates and Bonds – Revisited

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We wanted to revisit a blog post from exactly one year ago today that touched on why a rapid rise in interest rates matters for stocks. At the time – Feb 9, 2018 – interest rates had risen over 100% from their lows in 2016. Our point was that when interest rates, one of the key lubricants particularly in a highly indebted economy rise, it presents a strong headwind to continued growth and could serve to catalyze the changing of the business cycle. This dynamic could be even more pronounced in an environment where financial markets are extremely overvalued which…

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