The second quarter of the year contained plenty of action for market watchers. Trade war rhetoric and threats involving North Korea marred the first quarter and challenged the early innings of the second quarter. Following that, a relative calm settled in allowing US stocks to drift higher for a few weeks. However, that ended when… Read More

We are pleased to introduce the newest member of the BAMG team, Damaris Wyand! Damaris is joining Brand Asset Management Group as an Associate in our Operations Department. Her official bio can be read on our website here, but to help you get to know Damaris, we’ve asked her to share a little about her… Read More

As financial advisors, we use facts and logic to guide our clients through investment decisions, rather than emotion. Even the most perceptive investors, armed with years of market experience, can fall prey to mental biases that lead to poor investment decisions. While it’s impossible to completely eliminate mental biases, we help our clients identify and… Read More

Wow – what a difference a few weeks can make! Our prior market commentary (written at the beginning of January), entitled The Case of the Missing Volatility, became very prescient a few short weeks later. It discussed the abnormally low level of volatility seen in the market for 2017. As we saw the end of… Read More

“The markets take the stairs up and the elevator down.” While this saying may be over-used, it helps to convey the speed at which markets can seem to turn against you. After volatility held near record lows over the past year, we saw two days last week where the DOW was down over 1,000 points. It’s a… Read More