Profitable Survival

May 13, 2018 |Cushing Wealth Management

At first glance, this list looks like what you would expect a good portfolio manager to always be doing. In fact, it is very different – good managers generally form their theses, and then constantly use new developments and market feedback to...

Read more

Looking for Earnings

April 16, 2018 |Cushing Wealth Management

The combination of economic growth and tax reform has led to large, projected earnings increases for 2018, as evidenced in the current 5-point gap between trailing 12-month and forward 12-month P/E multiples on the S&P 500...

Read more

Tariffs

March 05, 2018 |Cushing Wealth Management

I suspect that Thursday’s trade war talk will only intensify the focus on rising interest rates through the Spring. The President’s steel and aluminum tariff announcement follows a familiar pattern...

Read more

The Main Event

February 20, 2018 |Cushing Wealth Management

The main event from these past two weeks is the rapid, 10% drop in equity markets. The recovery proved to be equally rapid, with almost all of the losses now erased. The key takeaway was...

Read more

Your Wish List

February 03, 2018 |Cushing Wealth Management

All of this implies that it is a good time to be very focused on your wish-list of investments. Correlations generally increase sharply during market corrections, resulting in good companies getting sold off together with the bad – with a bit of...

Read more