by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Oct 2, 2019 | blog
OVERVIEW The U.S. stock market edged lower last week by roughly one percent. Only three of the eleven S&P 500 sectors had positive returns. Growth and small-cap stocks dragged the averages down by dropping more than one and a half percent. International stocks...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Sep 22, 2019 | blog
OVERVIEW After three consecutive weeks of gains, the U.S. stock market ended the week lower by about half a percent. The majority of the losses came from small-cap and value stocks. Volatility has come down quite a bit compared to last month, where 50 percent of the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Aug 16, 2019 | blog
This was a volatile week for stocks across the globe, but perhaps nowhere more so than Argentina. Argentina has struggled with geopolitical issues a lot in recent years and a look at it’s stock market so far this year reflects that. You can see the year...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 27, 2018 | blog
The First Public Markets Emerge As the authors Norton Reamer and Jesse Downing point out in their work on the history of investment, public markets for securities didn’t exist before the 1600s. In was in Amsterdam, the financial center of the world at the time,...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Dec 5, 2018 | blog
“History is not everything, but it is a starting point.” – John Henrik Clarke What is investing? Why do we do it? These are the type of questions that many adults ask themselves when they begin to make their own money and think about the future. In the...
by NelsonCorp Wealth Management | Nov 27, 2018 | blog
I would argue that the most important thing we as financial advisors do for our clients is help them identify their problems. On the surface this may seem silly. People obviously know what they want, right? Surprisingly, this isn’t always the case. People...
