At Emerald Asset Management, our primary focus is managing stock portfolios for our clients.  Our flagship strategy, called the Global...

We believe that the economy is currently in or about to be in a mild recession. Most of the indicators that we monitor indicate that the...

The first three rules of investing in the stock market are: 1) the trend is your friend, 2) don’t fight the Fed, and 3) beware the crowd...

One of the advantages of getting older is experience and the wisdom that (supposedly) comes with it. I would say that over 30 years of...

As long term investors, which most of our clients are, the goal is to buy high quality equity investments and hold onto those investments

According to Investopedia “The basic efficient market hypothesis posits that the market cannot be beaten because it incorporates all

The reason for the complacency about the national debt can it part be attributed to an Australian economist named Bill Mitchell. In 1990, M

This post is a synopsis of our 'fearless outlook' for the US Equity Markets in 2019.

I’ve been at the business of investing money for clients and myself for 27 years - almost to the day. I didn’t know it then but after my...

A well constructed bond portfolio can stand-alone as a total portfolio or as part of a broader asset allocation strategy. There are many...

In today’s low return environment, investors are scrambling to find higher yielding investments in order to fund future or a current...

It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. -Mark Twain I recently got...

Whether your game is growth or value, momentum, low volatility or indexing, strategies with strong academic underpinnings generally work...

Some years back I used to enjoy reading a research report that was published periodically by Credit Suisse called “Better than Bonds”. ...

It’s been well publicized that the month of January 2016 was not the worst January in history for US equities - it was the second worst. ...

Nobody can predict the future with absolute certainty – nobody. However, in this business, we deal in probabilities, then we monitor and...

I can’t remember when I first heard the phrase that is the title of this article. But I’m fairly certain it’s been around for a while...

I started my career on The Street of Dreams in October of 1991 as a stock broker with one of those many great regional brokerage firms...

…..is missing the point altogether. I’m very well aware of what many studies say but I don’t think those studies adequately address the...

Since a bond is by definition a loan to an entity such as a government (U.S., agency or foreign), a corporation or a municipality,...