It was the third quarter of 2015 that stocks last turned in negative returns, triggered by recession fears and collapsing oil prices. While this quarter’s market decline of 1% – 2% came amidst stronger economic trends and positive earn...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementMeritage Growth Equity Strategy Again Awarded Top Guns Distinction in National Database Performance Results
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementAnother sharp drop happened on Thursday, similar to last Monday’s (Feb. 5) decline. Our conclusion remains the same, as stated in our February 6 memo – “Perspective on Markets”. Our view is that this is an overdue valuation corre...
By Mark E. Eveans CFA, President & Chief Investment OfficerThe stock market’s dramatic 8% drop in the last six trading days is breathtaking and disconcerting, especially yesterday’s 4.1% decline. Our view is that this is an overdue valuation correction, which we do not expect to escalate int...
By Mark E. Eveans CFA, President & Chief Investment OfficerA strong fourth quarter gave stocks their best year since 2013. Broad equity indices hit multiple new highs as volatility remained historically low through year end. Feeding off the momentum that began in late 2016, the S&P 500 finis...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementMeritage Growth Equity Strategy Again Awarded Top Guns Distinction in National Database Performance Results
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementStocks added impressively to their gains of the first half, marking the eighth consecutive quarter of positive returns for most broad based indices. Much of what transpired in the markets fit the “more of the same” narrative that has...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementIt was a good quarter for both stocks and bonds, adding to the solid returns of the first quarter. Numerous equity indices ended the quarter at or near record highs, in spite of a relatively flat month of June. Stocks, broadly speaking, ...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementA Strong Start: The momentum from last quarter carried into the New Year as the broad based equity averages completed their sixth straight quarter of positive returns. Investors’ attention was pulled between growing uncertainty coming ...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementGame Changer: Nobody saw this coming, but in the collective wisdom and unemotional ways of the market, it didn’t take long to comprehend that this was monumental. The combination of a highly improbable election outcome with such wide-r...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementCurrently in the midst of its eighth year, this bull market is the second longest on record. Conventional wisdom would suggest this puts us in the late stages of a traditional business cycle. The current cycle, however, has not followed ...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementConfidence Rising: Stocks closed higher in the third quarter amidst a relatively benign backdrop of news and events. In the context of stagnant growth and negative earnings trends, advances like this would seem to be driven more by senti...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementCliffhanger: Stocks completed a near 6% round trip in a rousing final week of the second quarter, leaving most of the broad equity averages at slightly positive levels for the three months. The U.K. vote to leave the European Union cle...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementSomething for Everyone: Stocks declined over 10% in the quarter. They also gained more than 10%. Oil dropped 30% and gained almost 50% in the quarter. The Fed advised to expect four more rate hikes this year and then took that off ...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementThis has clearly been a difficult start to the year, as volatility has picked up meaningfully from an extended period of relatively calm markets. For many of us, the equity market meltdowns of 2000-2002 and 2008-2009 are fresh in our mem...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementThe year ended for stocks and bonds, not far om where they began. Seems fitting to come full circle like this, if only fitting were part of the plan.
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementThe unusually tight trading range that defined the stock market in the first half of the year gave way to the downside in the third quarter. Slowing global growth became a flashpoint of concern midway through the quarter, triggered by di...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementIn contrast to strongly positive returns during the past twelve months for the Meritage Value and Growth Equity strategies, the Yield-Focus strategy has experienced a tough year. Yield equity strategies in general, and our differentiated...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementBeware Greeks Bearing Gifts (or Referendums) A relatively quiet quarter for stocks was interrupted at quarter-end as the charade of negotiations around Greece’s solvency had an untimely reality check. Modest equity gains that had accum...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementGoing Nowhere, Fast Broad stock returns were relatively unchanged for the quarter, a fitting outcome for a market that moved frequently with conviction in both directions. It is also not surprising to see a consolidation of the very stro...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementIn the Books A strong fourth quarter lifted U.S. stocks to record highs, generating the third consecutive year of double-digit returns. A familiar combination of solid corporate earnings, Federal Reserve stimulus and few attractive alt...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementComing off a strong second quarter, stocks turned in a mixed performance for the three months ending September 30. The fundamental backdrop for stocks remained relatively stable, with interest rates drifting slightly lower and generally ...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementMore of the Same, This Time Quiet is not an adjective often used to describe financial markets, but it fits, along with steady, resilient, calm and positive for the second calendar quarter. News flow over the quarter was relatively uneve...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementA Tentative Start On the heels of the strong finish to last year, stock market averages posted flattish to moderately positive results for the quarter. Beneath the surface of this relatively lackluster outcome are several observable shif...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementWe should not be surprised to see investors on high alert for the next bubble. As with most things, all of us have a heightened sensitivity to recent events. This explains why sales of flood insurance spike higher right after that so...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementThis piece is another in a series that takes a closer look at how investors typically make investment decisions. In this case, we look at one of the key inputs in developing an investment strategy – risk tolerance. An investor’s...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementIn the spirit of this column’s focus on broadening our conventional thinking, we draw upon the wisdom of turkeys and the existence of swans, specifically black swans. What this has to do with the capital markets is detailed in the th...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementIn our initial “Worth Mentioning” note last quarter, we wrote that the intent of this correspondence is to address a single investment topic from a fresh perspective. As topics go, the headline above would seem a little ambitious f...
By Meritage Portfolio ManagementMost investors are familiar with the claim “It’s different this time” – a siren’s song, often heard right before the inevitable collapse of whatever was supposed to be different. We heard it in spades with the dotcom craze. At it...
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