By Bob Barber, CWS®, CKA® The top 10 New Year’s Resolutions people set are: 1) Eat healthier 2) Get more exercise 3) Save more 4) Focus on self-care 5) Read more 6) Learn a new skill 7) Make new friends 8) Get a job or a different one 9) Take up a new hobby 10) [...]
By Teresa Joelson Well, it was another crazy year with COVID, the Political State of Affairs, & Fed Chairman Jerome Powell giving out free money and now correcting some of the bad effects of doing that. Although most portfolios experienced record growth, it looks to be a possibly turbulent year due to some of those [...]
By Bob Barber, CWS®, CKA® When COVID-19 hit, both the Federal Reserve and the government put trillions into the economy to stimulate it. This created massive inflation, especially in real estate. Now, the federal reserve is saying no more “Free Candy” as they pull back stimulus by the way of: 1. Higher interest rates over [...]
Me holding a sedated, feral (wild) tomcat at one of our TNR clinics By Jenna Peters I haven’t been around the office much because 1) I am only working part time from home and 2) I’ve taken up another part time job with our local humane society! While I am still doing some work for [...]
By Shawn Peters I’m so glad to be working at Christian Financial Advisors again as a Wealth Advisor. For those who aren’t aware, I worked with the team from 2008 to 2013 as an advisor. After working seven years in website development and IT, I rejoined the team in early 2020 after God opened the [...]
By Bob Barber, CWS®, CKA® I find many people actually believing that high investment returns are one of the only ways to wealth, and for a very small minority, it is. but for the majority, high investment returns have little to do with obtaining wealth. Over my 37 years, I have studied the traits of [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
