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Foundation for Financial Service Professionals Announces Journal Author Award Winners

NAIFA Advisor Today

The Foundation for Financial Service Professionals has announced the recipients of the Kenneth Black Jr. Journal Author Awards for articles published in the Journal of Financial Service Professionals in 2023. The Foundation was established by the leadership of the Society of Financial Service Professionals (FSP) in 1982.

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Market Commentary: The Summer Rally Continues Amid Strong Job Gains

Carson Wealth

An aging population, with more people retiring and leaving the labor force every day, can also make the numbers noisier. That’s only slightly below the high from last summer, and above anything we saw between 2001 and 2019 (when it peaked at 80.4%). in April, and it rose to a new record of 75.7%

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Market Commentary: Best Calendar Month Over the Last 20 Years Holding True

Carson Wealth

That’s only slightly below the high from last summer, and above anything we saw between 2001 and 2019 (when it peaked at 80.4%). The NASDAQ 100 Index includes publicly-traded companies from most sectors in the global economy, the major exception being financial services.

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Market Commentary: Bull Keeps Going, 15 Years Since Global Financial Crisis

Carson Wealth

Retirement funds had been demolished and there was very little hope. Definitional issues around labor force participation (how the unemployment rate is calculated) and demographics (an aging society, with more people retiring every day) is why I prefer the prime-age (25-54 years) employment-population ratio. That went up from 80.6%

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Market Commentary: This Is What Normal Looks Like

Carson Wealth

As baby boomers retire, they leave the labor force.) Encouragingly, the prime-age employment-population ratio was unchanged at 80.9%, which is the highest level it has been since 2001. The NASDAQ 100 Index includes publicly-traded companies from most sectors in the global economy, the major exception being financial services.

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Market Commentary: Stocks in the Middle of Some Amazing Streaks While Job Growth Perks Up

Carson Wealth

That’s higher than anything we saw between 2001 and 2019 (when it peaked at 80.4%). The NASDAQ 100 Index includes publicly-traded companies from most sectors in the global economy, the major exception being financial services. The prime-age employment population ratio was unchanged at 80.9% in September.

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Market Commentary: Fed, Earnings, Job Gains Support a Young Bull Market

Carson Wealth

As mentioned previously, the prime-age (25-54 years) employment-population ratio gets around definitional issues that crop up with the unemployment rate (a person is counted as being unemployed only if they’re “actively looking for a job”) or demographics (an aging population with more people retiring and leaving the labor force every day).