by Sarah Paulson | May 18, 2022 | Markets
If you recently got a statement from your retirement account or other investment account and have been meaning to look at it, don’t. The past 4-and-a-half months have not been kind to investors. The S&P 500 is down 14%. The Dow is down 10%. The NASDAQ is... 
by Sarah Paulson | Mar 30, 2022 | Markets
Stock picking falls short again in 2021. 85% of active stock fund managers underperformed their benchmark last year. Let me say that again: EIGHTY-FIVE PERCENT of fund managers (super smart, very qualified professionals who do nothing but evaluate, analyze, and watch... 
by Sarah Paulson | Mar 23, 2021 | Markets
It’s March 23rd, which means it has been one year since the S&P 500 hit it’s COVID-19-induced low. As it became clear that this virus was going to become a global pandemic and the safest way to deal with it was to keep people from spreading the bug by... 
by Sarah Paulson | Jan 4, 2021 | Money Monday
2020 was… um…well… it was a rollercoaster. The S&P 500 had a daily close up or down of at least 1% (illustrated by the bar chart below the line graph), in 110 of this year’s 253 trading days, compared to just 38 days in 2019. That is what us financial nerds call...