Economy and Investing

Recession Risk Viewed Through Three Lenses

Posted Aug. 22, 2019

Predictions of an economic recession are on the rise with the commentariat suggesting that the fact that the US economy is entering its 11th year of expansion, now the longest on record, and the appearance of an “inverted yield curve” are signals for an imminent...

Topics: Economy and Investing, Webinars

Noisy Signals

Posted Aug. 15, 2019

The US economy has entered its 11th year of expansion, now the longest on record. This by itself isn’t significant, some expansion always has to be the longest, and being the longest doesn’t automatically mean imminent demise. Such a milestone does leave the commentariat looking...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Portfolio Update: Going Long on Bonds

Posted Jun. 13, 2019

A couple years ago, we decided to take a more conservative approach in our fixed income portfolio and replace DFA’s Five Year Global Bond fund with its One Year Fixed Income fund, which carries an average maturity of less than one year. We made this...

Topics: Economy and Investing, Financial Planning

An Investment Approach That’s Stable, Not Static

Posted Jun. 04, 2019

From an outside perspective, it can be easy to label Yeske Buie’s investment philosophy as “passive.” However, while that descriptor is partly true (i.e. we do not churn the holdings of our Clients’ accounts or turn our approach upside-down based on the latest industry trends...

Topics: Economy and Investing, Yeske Buie Millennial

Mastering the Markets: The Case for Human Resiliency

Posted May. 29, 2019

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines resiliency as, “an ability to recover from or adjust easily to misfortune or change.”1 At Yeske Buie, one of our fundamental worldviews is that human beings are resilient by nature. We believe when faced with obstacles, we solve problems, adapt to...

Topics: Economy and Investing, Financial Planning

Performance of the Premiums

Posted May. 16, 2019

There are many dimensions of risk and return in the stock market, the most notable three being the Market, Size, and Value factors (or premiums). Join us for a tour of 90 years of market history with a particular focus on implications for the future...

Topics: Economy and Investing, Financial Planning, Webinars

Weekend Chart Challenge – Revisited

Posted Apr. 04, 2019

Written By: Dave Yeske, CFP® and Lauren Stansell, CFP® Back in August of 2015 markets around the world had gotten choppy after a period of extended calm and some were asking what was up and what was next. We offered the Weekend Chart Challenge as…

Topics: Economy and Investing

Falling Flat: The Not-So-Predictive Yield Curve

Posted Jan. 10, 2019

If you’ve been following recent market news, you’ve undoubtedly heard about the recent turmoil in the stock market. As we noted last week, 2018 was the first year in a decade that US markets finished lower than they started. This fact doesn't mean a lot...

Topics: Economy and Investing

Quick Take: Market Perspective in Two Charts

Posted Jan. 07, 2019

The stock market has become much more volatile in recent weeks and months and we thought we’d offer a brief perspective. First, we know you’ve seen the headlines that market performance last year was the worst in a decade, based on the S&P 500. That…

Topics: Economy and Investing

What the Stock and Bond Markets are Telling Us

Posted Oct. 18, 2018

OK, let’s be honest, we never really know what the stock and bond markets are telling us in real time. It is only after the fact, with the benefit of hindsight, that we know what the signal meant. The economy and the financial markets are...

Topics: Economy and Investing