Market Commentary – December 20th 2021 Update

12/20/2021Posted in Blogs, Market Commentaries, Newsletters, Investing, Finance, Business

December 20, 2021 Market Commentary Omicron Fears and the Federal Reserve. Possibly no “Santa Claus” rally! The stock markets are presently reacting negatively to three realities it now faces: Last week, the Federal Reserve indicated it will begin tapering its bond-buying program in 2022. This tapering has given the markets and the economy artificial stimulation [...]

Market Commentary – December 2021

12/07/2021Posted in Blogs, Newsletters, Investing, Finance, Business

December 7, 2021 Market Commentary As of last week, three-month trailing returns for most of the well-known stock indexes like the S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq were all basically flat, giving up all gains made in October and November. See more details below on our portfolios’ present positions. Our Biblically Responsible Portfolio Positions at this [...]

Market Commentary – November 2021

11/03/2021Posted in Blogs, Investing, Finance, Business, Newsletters

November 3, 2021 Market Commentary The Stock Markets rebounded strongly in October to recover its losses from September. On November 2nd, surprise news came out that the supposed contract between Hertz & Tesla for 100K vehicles was not a done deal. As expected, the Federal Reserve announced today it will soon begin reducing the pace [...]

Market Commentary – October 2021

10/05/2021Posted in Blogs, Investing, Newsletters, Finance, Business

October 4, 2021 Market Commentary The Stock Markets have been in a downward trend since September 2, 2021 with each low being lower than the one before and each high bouncing off the lows being lower than the high before. At the time I am writing this commentary the S&P 500 index is down over [...]

Market Commentary – August 2021

08/13/2021Posted in Blogs, Newsletters, Investing, Finance, Business

By Bob Barber I hope this commentary finds all of you doing well. A few of you have contacted me lately asking how it's going with our managed portfolios. To answer that question in a nutshell, we have been actively underweighting and overweighting the different sectors and asset classes that have been either oversold or [...]

Location No Longer Matters

04/13/2021Posted in Newsletters, Blogs, Finance, Business

Just 2 years ago, having a financial advisor in a different state, or even city, was something that most people never considered. Why? The capabilities to video chat, email, and sign digitally have been available for many years, but most people had not been utilizing these technologies. The recent coronavirus restrictions changed all this and [...]

The <em>Christian Financial Advisors<sup>®</sup></em> Story

The Christian Financial Advisors^® Story

04/08/2021Posted in Blogs, Investment Advisor, Business

Matthew 5:14 – You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. To reflect the above scripture, we have decided to change the name we are known by from ‘CIS Wealth Management’ to ‘Christian Financial Advisors®’ to bring more clarity to the hundreds of people searching online daily […]

February Commentary on Recent Events

02/01/2021Posted in Newsletters, Business, Finance, Podcast, Blogs, Investing, Modern Issues

There is so much uncertainty today… The Coronavirus continues The new administration’s agenda and Biden’s numerous executive orders Continued massive borrowing of money to overcome the impact of the Coronavirus and how could this ultimately create high inflation and higher interest rates And then last week, out of nowhere, Reddit users manipulated the price of […]

State of the Company and Market Commentary – January 2021

01/15/2021Posted in Blogs, Business, Newsletters, Investing, Finance

State of the Company I hope this commentary finds you doing well as we all get settled into the new year. All the CIS staff is doing great and fortunately no one has gotten the coronavirus yet. We continue to be extremely careful by socially distancing ourselves from each other and fully utilizing online technologies [...]

Meet Shawn

07/31/2020Posted in Newsletters, Blogs, Christian Investment Advisor, Financial Advisor, Registered Investment Advisor, Investment Advisor, Business

Shawn Peters is a Wealth Associate with Christian Financial Advisors. Shawn has 5 years of experience in the financial industry, which includes portfolio and investment management, client and technology support, data reconciliation and analysis as well as acting as an Investment Advisor Representative and Financial Advisor. Shawn is currently studying to become a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL [...]