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

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|

Don’t Get Spoofed by Pig Butchering

In this article, we would like to address a topic other than investments and the markets. Recently, there has been a new scam in social media that takes advantage of individuals looking for investment advice. The scammer will impersonate a well-known individual in the investment community: Tom Lee, Josh Brown, Cathie Wood, and many others, luring people into WhatsApp groups via targeted advertising. Because it’s a sponsored advertisement, the post can look legitimate. The FBI calls it "spoofing". But the internet calls it by a more ominous name: "Pig Butchering". [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2024-11-05T12:13:24-05:00November 5, 2024|Investments|

Market Update: October 22, 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. The market just continues to march higher despite war in the Middle East, slowing consumer spending, and a really tight race between these two. For those wondering why I haven’t commented on the upcoming election, it’s because the results of the election do not matter to the long-term trajectory of the markets. There is no statistically significant difference between returns [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2024-11-05T11:48:53-05:00November 5, 2024|Videos|

Market Update: September 25th, 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. Well folks, we are finally here! We got our first set of rate cuts this month. The Federal Reserve cut their benchmark rate by 50 basis points or half a percent. The larger 50 basis point cut came as a positive surprise to the market which rallied on the news of a bit of extra monetary relief. Looking ahead, the [...]

By Brian Ransom, CFA®, MBA, MS|2024-10-01T12:07:44-04:00October 1, 2024|Videos|

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