by Susan Linkous | Dec 22, 2022 | Blog, Blog1
LPL Research’s Outlook 2023: Finding Balance is LPL’s guide to how the readjustments in the economy and markets may impact you in the coming year. The disruptions may not be fully resolved and there may be more challenges to come, but progress toward finding...
by Susan Linkous | Dec 7, 2022 | Blog, Blog1
Some investors may worry about the stock market sinking after a recession is officially announced. But history shows that markets incorporate expectations ahead of economic reports. The global financial crisis offers a lesson in the forward-looking nature of the stock...
by Susan Linkous | Oct 20, 2022 | Blog, Blog1
Nearly a century of US stock market returns suggests that making investment decisions based on control of the chambers of Congress is unlikely to lead to better investment outcomes. From 1926 to 2022, stocks trended higher regardless of whether Democrats or...
by Susan Linkous | Oct 12, 2022 | Blog, Blog1
The Linkous Group and Dimensional are excited to congratulate Douglas W. Diamond on being awarded the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences. Professor Diamond, who is lead Independent Director of the boards of the firm’s US Mutual Funds and ETFs, received the award on...
by Susan Linkous | Oct 1, 2022 | Blog, Blog1
Markets are simply either bull or in recession and bear. Those are the only two scenarios we get. We are currently in a bear market recession with high inflation. This dictates how securities are selected for our clients and, although it is painful to go through these...
by Susan Linkous | Sep 8, 2022 | Blog, Blog1
Since 1926, the US stock market has rewarded investors with an average annual return of about 10%. But it’s important to remember that returns in any given year may be sky-high, extremely poor, or somewhere in between. Annual returns came within two percentage points...