What Now?
By: Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors, May 19, 2020 Fears of the economic effects of Corona Virus caused the S&P 500 to fall over 33% in about a month. March 23rd marked the low of the selloff – the…
SECURE Act and CARES Act
By: Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors, April 20, 2020 The SECURE Act and CARES Act were recently signed into law. They both have many moving pieces. For the SECURE ACT, I think the most important point for investors is…
Take Some Money off the Table
“time to de-risk” “the market is stretched” “time to take profits” “stocks are overbought” “the risk is worth more than the reward” “time to take some money off the table” These are all phrases that you hear when the stock…
Three Key Investing Charts for 2020
By Charles Brown, January 6, 2020 As the 2020 investing year gets going, I thought I would post a few of the charts* that I think are important for investors this year. This first chart is of the performance of…
Loaves and Fishes – Toasting For a Cause
By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors Last week (11/11/19) M. Brown Financial Advisors was the lead sponsor of “Toasting For A Cause” – a charity dinner benefiting Loaves and Fishes in Naperville, Illinois. Loaves and Fishes strives to provide…
Refinancing Your Mortgage – What to Consider
By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors Interest rates here in the United States have dropped significantly in the last year. Yields on ten year US Treasury bonds have fallen from over 3% last November to less than 1.6% today…
Who Wants To Lose Money?
By Charles Brown, M. Brown Financial Advisors If you are an investor, the chart above should be on your radar. It’s a chart representing the dollar value of negative yielding debt globally. The chart, as of June 20th 2019, just…
Investing Trends – Cash
by Charles Brown The US Federal Reserve hiked interest rates four times in 2018, raising the Federal Funds Rate to 2.5%. This has raised yields on money market funds and Certificates of Deposit which adjust their yields based on changes…
Whipsaw
By Charles Brown I am not sure why, but when I think of the word “whipsaw*” I think of a crazy amusement park ride that spins you around every which way – sort of like the one pictured below. When…
Recession in 2019?
As we enter 2019 and the 10th year of the economic expansion here in the United States, many end-of-year research reports will address the big question: is the US economy headed into a recession* sometime in 2019? There are dozens…