Boyer & Corporon Wealth Management welcomes Mark Milosovich as our new Investment Operations Specialist. Though Mark is new to this position, he worked at BCWM before he moved to Atlanta, GA nearly a decade ago. “We’re excited Mark is rejoining our team. He was a trusted and respected part of our team then, and today…
In a low interest-rate environment, investors are often tempted by the promise of higher-than-market yields. While there are legitimate opportunities to add yield to a portfolio, investors should be wary of those who market the promise of high returns. The risks associated with higher-than-market returns are seldom understood until it is too late. We came…
January stunk it up. The first two weeks of January really reeked. January stunk it up so badly that it made 2015 smell good. And February is starting out like it wants to make January smell good. After the first two weeks of January, U.S. markets were down about 8%. Foreign markets were slightly worse.…
No, I’m not talking about the Philadelphia 76’ers or the Titanic. I’m talking about the stock market in 2016. In the first week of trading this year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 6.2%. Foreign stocks (the MSCI All World Index ex-US) declined 5.8%. According to pundits on CNBC that is the worst 5-day start…
The Fed raised interest rates last week – a big whopping ¼ of 1% – the first increase in almost a decade. We’ve known this was coming for months… actually thought it might have occurred in September, so the increase in December was not a surprise. The only surprise would have been if they HADN’T…
