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big bad wolf with little red riding hood, Sheaff Brock reviews potential tax hikes
29 May

Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Tax Hike?

“Tax increases may not be the obstacle that many investors expect,” according to Fidelity Viewpoints. Other economic factors may play a more important role, especially when sizable federal spending serves as an offset. Sheaff Brock Managing Director Dave Gilreath tends to agree. “The global economy is a good policeman of tax rates,” Gilreath says, with money flowing to where ‘it’s treated best.” If tax rates in the U.S. are judged to be “too high,” capital will flow to other [...]

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girls blowing bubbles, Sheaff Brock CIO looks at market "bubbles"
30 Mar

Market Bubbles and the Big Picture

A basic characteristic of financial bubbles, Troy Segal wrote recently in Investopedia, is the suspension of disbelief while a speculative stock price surge is happening. It’s only after a bubble has burst that it is recognized, much to investors’ chagrin. The term “bubble” itself refers to a situation in which a stock, or even the entire stock market, exceeds its fundamental value by a large margin, Segal explains. There’s no doubt that the advent of commission-free investing apps such as [...]

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innovation of the Roarin' 20s, stock market trajectory, Sheaff Brock
06 Mar

Innovation Set to Spur New Roarin’ 20s-Style Market

The stock market is a forward-looking animal, explains Sheaff Brock Managing Director Dave Gilreath, yet signs indicate that clues to what lies ahead may be found in our Roarin’ 20s’ USA past. There is a very real potential for the Dow Jones Industrial Average to hit 50,000 by the year 2027, Gilreath states. That’s because the decade of the 2020s, like the decade of the 1920s, will be marked by both disruption and innovation. “Confidence in the recovery is growing rapidly,” [...]

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21 Dec

Sheaff Brock Revs Up Research

The word rev is an abbreviation for revolution, alluding to the rate of rotation of an engine, dictionary.com explains. The purpose of revving? To enliven, or stimulate…. The words “enliven” and “stimulate” precisely describe Sheaff Brock managing partners Dave Gilreath and Ron Brock’s intent in inviting research analyst Tom Kaiser to become the newest member of the wealth management firm’s research team. A 2009 graduate of Indiana University’s Kelly School of Business, Tom Kaiser spent five years at Fitch Rating in [...]

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addition and subtraction card, Sheaff Brock money managers, arithmetic of loss
30 Oct

Stay Invested to Help Soften the Arithmetic of Loss

The stock market, it might be said, is the greatest of teachers, but attending class isn’t always fun. One of the harshest lessons the market has to impart to investors concerns the arithmetic of loss. Quite Like medical students learning about the ravages cancer can cause, investors understand the potential of portfolio losses, yet persist in hoping the lesson applies to others, never to themselves. Fact is, as the arithmetic of loss shows, a given percentage of gain is never [...]

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slice of pecan pie, Sheaff Brock performance, Sheaff Brock money managers, asset allocation
24 Sep

Re-Sectioning the Pie Chart

The whole idea behind asset allocation is to prevent extremes. Experience has taught us that the three main categories of investment assets—equities (stocks), fixed-income (bonds), and cash equivalents—each behave differently in reaction to any given set of circumstances. The term for this difference is “negative correlation.” Investor.gov, the website of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, explains asset allocation by comparing it to street vendors who sell both umbrellas and sunglasses, two items consumers are unlikely to purchase at the [...]

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Sheaff Brock | Pre-Election Investment Plan Based on Historical Data Since the 1930s
26 Aug

If-Then Investment Planning Prior to an Election

In classical logic, a connection is made between two statements, implying that if P (the proposition) is true, then Q (the next statement) is also true. If Sarah works overtime, she’ll be paid time-and-a-half. If I study, then I’ll get good grades. If I get good grades, then I’ll get into a good college. You get the idea—If statement #1, a given fact, is true, then statement #2 is a new fact that may be deduced from statement #1. Just [...]

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Sheaff Brock Money Managers, Investment Survival Tactics, and Dixie-Cups Style for Investment Growth
21 Jul

Investment and Estate Planning Survival Tactics Dixie-Cup Style

Before the Spanish flu hit, the company behind Dixie Cups was just another scrappy startup, Kevin Leland points out in fastcompany.com. Once the pandemic hit, because it was hoped disposable cups would help stop the spread of the disease, Dixie used survival tactics to eventually become a household name. The moral of this story, Leland believes, is this: Timing is one of the crucial stars that must align for any start-up to succeed. But what if the timing isn’t right [...]

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Sheaff Brock, great rotation, spinning top, bond holds shifting into stocks
22 Jun

Will a Great Rotation Make an Early Arrival? Is COVID-19 the Catalyst?

Months before COVID-19 had become the topic of everyday conversation, Marketwatch was talking about the arrival of a “Great Rotation” in 2020, anticipating the shifting of bond holdings into stocks. Now, a half year later, Bank of America agrees with that prognosis: “The stars have aligned for more stock gains,” BOA observes, with equities being the most attractively valued in decades as compared to bonds. For investors, the coming great rotation will be all about investment yield, explains Sheaff Brock Managing [...]

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Sheaff Brock looking at COVID-19 Rate of Change | woman looking at bad news on phone
27 May

News Bad; Market Strong? Pay Attention to the COVID-19 Rate of Change

It’s a puzzlement—how can the market be this strong when the news continues to be so bad? A certain calendar date may offer a clue. On March 23, 2020, two things happened. The COVID-19 death “rate of change” peaked, with a steady descent following. At the very same time, the stock market bottomed, then began a sustained rise. To be sure, the news continues to document a rising pandemic death toll. According to Johns Hopkins, on March 23rd the number of [...]

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