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Economics

Economic activity drives the underlying thesis of how markets perform. Economics not only helps us predict what may happen but help us understand what has happened.

This forward-thinking principal based in economic theory helps us draft our investment strategy.

These blogs will help you better understand how we invest at RHS Financial and what we think will happen going forward.

22 08, 2016

The World’s Money is Being Managed by People with Completely Unrealistic Expectations

By |2020-04-27T17:19:49+00:00August 22nd, 2016|Economics, Investing|Comments Off on The World’s Money is Being Managed by People with Completely Unrealistic Expectations

State Street recently published a survey of the return expectations and strategies being used by institutional investors around the world (h/t Flirting with Models). The respondents were a sample of over 400 money managers representing pension funds, insurance companies, foundations, endowments, and other major pools of institutional wealth. Though the [...]

20 06, 2016

Does the Stock Market Take a Summer Break?

By |2020-04-27T17:19:49+00:00June 20th, 2016|Economics, Investing|Comments Off on Does the Stock Market Take a Summer Break?

This week, I'm going to be taking a little summer vacation and go camping. As a result, our trading activity over the next several days is likely to be lower than usual. And of course I'm not the only one; this summer other financial advisors, broker-dealers, hedge fund managers, and [...]

11 01, 2016

Wither the Value Investor?

By |2020-04-27T17:20:10+00:00January 11th, 2016|Economics, Investing|Comments Off on Wither the Value Investor?

Value investing, the strategy of buying stocks whose market values are low relative to their profits or book value or other accounting metrics, has a long history of success. Since 1926, the cheapest 30% of stocks as measured by the price to book ratio have outperformed the most expensive 30% [...]

1 10, 2015

A Tough Third Quarter for Markets

By |2020-04-27T17:20:10+00:00October 1st, 2015|Economics|Comments Off on A Tough Third Quarter for Markets

OCTOBER: This is one of the peculiarly dangerous months to speculate in stocks in. The others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, December, August, and February. - Mark Twain The above quote reminds us that there is inherent risk in investing and in exchange for that risk, [...]

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