Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS - Signature Wealth Management Group

Southern Company Update, 2nd Quarter 2025

Southern Company results continue to be good and investors have rewarded SO and other utilities with returns typically not seen in the utility space. Southern Company, as of August 11, 2025, is up 36% over two years, 9% over the last year, and 15% year-to-date. Consistent growth in earnings and the dividend combined with the prospects of strong future growth driven by data center buildouts have turned the utility sector into the 4th highest returning business grouping so far in 2025 behind Technology, Communications Services, and Industrials. But, there is [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2025-08-12T15:24:39-04:00August 12, 2025|Economic Insights, Insights, Investments, Southern Company|

Market Update: June 30th, 2025

Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. We just had a very good month of June. This follows a 19% selloff to start the year. But 3 months and a +24% return later and we are back to all time high pricing in the S&P 500. 2025 is starting to look quite a bit like 2018. Back in 2018, we saw a 20% sell off in 57 days [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2025-07-07T15:01:22-04:00July 7, 2025|Videos|

Market Update: May 27, 2025

Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. The market has rebounded nicely following the 19% decline back in April. The S&P is up nearly 19% from the bottom as of May 27 and it does appear that the bear market caused by trade complications was short lived. The big news item of the month was a credit downgrade on US sovereign debt from the credit agency, Moody’s. [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2025-05-29T15:13:56-04:00May 29, 2025|Investments, Videos|

Market Update: April 29, 2025

Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. We have just experienced an incredibly volatile month of April that included a 19% peak-to-trough decline in the S&P 500. The market quickly reached oversold conditions and has since recovered a little less than half of the value lost during the decline. The primary cause of the market decline was tariffs and trade policy. Trade & trade policy is front and [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2025-05-01T14:29:49-04:00May 1, 2025|Economic Insights, Videos|

Market Update: March 21, 2025

Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. Today marks the 5-year anniversary of the 2020 Covid Pandemic low. At the time, the market had fallen about 33% over the course of 3 weeks, marking one of the fastest developing bear markets of all time. The market tripped 4 circuit breakers in 10 days where all trading was halted for a period of time before re-opening. We saw [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2025-05-01T14:30:45-04:00March 28, 2025|Economic Insights, Videos|

The Stock Market is a Market of Stocks

Brian Ransom, CFA, MBA, MS Research Director Signature Wealth Management Group Duh, Brian! It’s purposefully redundant to call the stock market a market of stocks. But sometimes I wonder if people truly understand what the “stock market,” is. By definition, the stock market is a basket of assets ranging from ~$500,000 in market value all the way up to $3.4 trillion. As of the end of 2023, there were approximately 55,214 stocks that could be purchased throughout the world. On any given day, those stocks move in a wide variety [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2025-03-13T16:42:26-04:00March 13, 2025|Insights, Investments|

Market Update: February 21, 2025

Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. We did, very briefly, hit new all-time highs on February 19. But for the most part, the market has been range bound for most of February as investors continue to digest headlines associated with tariffs, inflation, and interest rate cuts or lack-there-of. The inflation reading for this month was not a good one. The total consumer price index or CPI [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2025-05-01T14:31:02-04:00February 26, 2025|Videos|

Market Update: January 21, 2025

Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. January has had a pretty decent start for 2025 with the market up about 2% as of January 21st. We had previously been in a downward trend but have recently broken out of that trend and appear to be marching back towards all-time highs. At least until this week when AI stocks were disrupted. As we enter into 2025 and [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2025-01-30T14:43:55-05:00January 30, 2025|Videos|

Market Update: December, 23, 2024

Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. To end the year, the market had a strong rally following the results from the presidential election. But we have run into a bout of volatility in the middle of December. Causing the spike in volatility was a clear change in language and direction from the Federal Reserve that caused a sharp selloff in bonds and stocks alike. While the December [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2024-12-31T12:37:26-05:00December 31, 2024|Economic Insights, Insights, Investments, Videos|

Market Update: November 19th, 2024

Welcome to the Monthly Market Update from Signature Wealth Management. I’m Brian Ransom, Research Director from Signature Wealth and here’s what happened in the market this month. We got a nice little pop in the stock market in the week following the election. Between November 4 and November 14, the market was up about 5%. The market did quickly reach overbought territory on a short-term basis and gave some of the returns back, however. I will reiterate, once again, that there is no statistical difference in returns between [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2024-11-27T15:21:09-05:00November 27, 2024|Uncategorized|

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