On January 25th of 2020, the Chinese Zodiac Calendar flips to the year of the Rat, specifically Year of the Metal (Gold) Rat. I’m not...

After sliding about 13% during calendar year 2017, the US Dollar seems to have broken its downtrend and it appears to want to move higher....

In February of 2018 the Chinese Zodiac Calendar flips to the Year of the Dog, specifically the Year of the Brown Earth Dog. According to...

For the last week or so the conflict of words between North Korea and the United States seems to have changed from a rapid boil to a slow...

With the strong bull run in stock prices since November, we have been reading more from the perma-bear community about how overvalued the...

​Chart 1 Anybody who has been in the investment business long enough knows the futility of forecasting financial events – especially when...

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...

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”. ...

Current Outlook If 2015 was flat and boring for investors, then 2016 has ushered in an unwelcome change to volatility and losses. We...

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,...

It’s taken me awhile to get here but I do believe that the Great Recession caused by the housing crisis of 2007 - 2009 is behind us and a...

If you think dividends are boring, think again. According to Stocks for the Long Run, by Jeremy Siegel, about two thirds of the real...

by James B. Tharin, CFA At Emerald Asset Management, we believe the foundation to building a more secure financial future begins with a...