by Monument Wealth Management Team | Apr 23, 2020 | Browse FAQ, Weekly Market Commentary
Here at Monument, we avoid identifying ourselves with cookie cutter industry terminology. We prefer to keep things real. In an industry largely characterized by a lack of corporate accountability and conflicts of interest, we want to help you understand how you can...
by Monument Wealth Management Team | Feb 4, 2020 | Browse FAQ, Invest My Wealth, Weekly Market Commentary
Expense ratios can be confusing. What are they? What do they reveal about a fund? Why should you, as an investor, care about any of this? Understanding expense ratios is important if you have invested in a fund (or ever plan to). Whether we’re talking about Exchange...
by David B. Armstrong, CFA | Oct 17, 2019 | Browse FAQ, Invest My Wealth, Watch Wealth Management Videos, Weekly Market Commentary
A lot of people ask how our MONCON Recession Plan works. I’m going to refrain from discussing the exact data it looks at, but in general, it’s data that are representing the economic cycle. Economic cycles have a fairly predictable chain that can provide signs of...
by David B. Armstrong, CFA | Sep 10, 2019 | Browse FAQ, Invest My Wealth, Weekly Market Commentary
I’ve been working in wealth management for over two decades now. It’s changed a lot, mostly for the better, but the one thing that has remained consistent is investor behavior. One of the most often repeated statements I hear from investors is something along the...
by David B. Armstrong, CFA | Aug 15, 2019 | Browse FAQ, Invest My Wealth, Watch Wealth Management Videos, Weekly Market Commentary
I received a lot of great feedback and encouragement on yesterday’s video, and wanted to further dive into two questions that have come up: What did I mean by “distortion”? Why does a yield curve actually cause a recession? Interesting to note that the current...
by David B. Armstrong, CFA | Aug 14, 2019 | Browse FAQ, Invest My Wealth, Watch Wealth Management Videos, Weekly Market Commentary
What is the Yield Curve Distortion? Putting things into perspective…There are trillions of dollars of debt that are exposed to negative interest rates. (For example, this means, when you give the bank $100 bucks, they give you $96 back.) That sucks! The U.S. has the...
