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Market Commentary: How to Think About the S&P 500 Correction

Carson Wealth

Well, the word of the day in 2025 is diversify, as portfolios that have been diversified have held up quite well. In fact, the average year since 2000 has gained 9.5%, yet drops to negative 12.5% A diversified portfolio does not assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. It is possible, but unlikely.

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Market Commentary: Stocks Hit New Highs Amid a Year of Milestones

Carson Wealth

One More Bit of Good News November was a huge month for stocks, but the big winner was small caps, with the Russell 2000 up an amazing 10.9%. We found 22 other times the Russell 2000 gained at least double digits in a month and six months later it has been higher 90% of the time and a year later up a very solid 15% on average.

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Market Commentary: Strong Jobs Report Gets the “Good News Is Bad News” Treatment

Carson Wealth

There are a lot of opportunities to diversify portfolios so they arent as concentrated as the S&P 500. The interest rate on 10-year Treasury notes jumped from 4.68% to about 4.75% and the S&P 500 pulled back by over 1.5% (and the small cap index, the Russell 2000, was off almost 2%). Compliance Case # 7521978.1._011325_C

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Market Commentary: More Reasons We Think This Bull Market Has Plenty of Life Left

Carson Wealth

last week, declining for the second consecutive week, but there’s still a lot of strength under the surface, as the small cap Russell 2000 Index climbed 3.5%. March 2000 at the peak of the tech bubble. A diversified portfolio does not assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market. The S&P 500 fell 0.8%

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Transcript: Jonathan Clements

The Big Picture

You would offer three of their stock picks where they were probably touting stocks they wanted to unload from their portfolio. 00:12:41 [Speaker Changed] If nothing in your portfolio is performing badly, you’re not diversified. I did it in 2000, 2002. And the managers you selected were all based on past performance.

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Market Commentary: S&P 500 Makes New All-Time High as Fed Goes Big

Carson Wealth

The Russell Mid Cap index rose over 4% during this period, while the Russell 2000 small cap index rose over 7%. Full disclosure: we’re overweight these areas of the equity market in our model portfolios. A diversified portfolio does not assure a profit or protect against loss in a declining market.

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Saving investors from the “Humpty Dumpty portfolio” with hourly financial advisor Rick Ferri, CFA

Sara Grillo

We’re going to talk about how he provides high value as an hourly financial advisor by saving investors from the “Humpty Dumpty portfolio” and the lessons other advisors can learn about serving clients with simplicity, transparency, and integrity, whether they choose to adopt the hourly fee model or not.