It’s been a wild ride this first quarter of the year, with market swoops and dips and news coming at what sometimes seems like warp speed. Markets, as a proxy for investors, don’t welcome uncertainty and mood swings. They will often react to changing sentiment with sell offs and subsequent overcorrections on the back of each significant piece of news, creating even more concern for investors trying to digest what the updates mean

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The year has started off with such dizzying speed, it’s hard to know what to focus on first. Each day there are multiple news stories impacting national and international issues such that an investor or money manager hardly knows which way to turn. What’s coming next? Which of the new initiatives will grow to have major impact? How will the rest of the world receive the growing influence the US wields in 2025?

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Katrina. Harvey. Sandy. Irma. Andrew. Ike. Ivan. Michael. Wilma. Rita. These are not 2024’s most popular baby names, but the list, in financial devastation chronological order, of the top 10 most damaging storms to hit the US prior to the most recent two, Helene and Milton, where damages are still being assessed

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The following post is courtesy of Diane Harrison who is principal and owner of Panegyric Marketing, a strategic marketing communications firm founded in 2002 specializing in alternative assets. While the investment world, along with essentially the rest of us, waits anxiously for the US general election to deliver some expectation of where the markets will be

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