News & Perspectives

Stronger job growth is needed to sustain the economy, and investors are best served by staying diversified, rebalancing, and sticking to their long‑term plan.

We can’t control—or predict—market drops. What we can do is avoid compounding losses by reacting. Fire drills save lives. Financial fire drills may help save our savings.

Government shutdowns tend to make more noise than impact. Markets have tended to ignore short shutdowns and barely budged on those that lasted longer than five days.

Historically, the broad stock market has often been positive even at the start of economic recessions. But what about small cap stocks? Conventional wisdom holds that smaller companies often bear the brunt of economic downturns. So, what does the data tell us about the size premium when gross domestic product growth slows?

Rather than going it alone, consider reaching out to a financial advisor when markets become unpredictable. Their insight, experience, and strategic perspective can help you make decisions with confidence—not just in spite of market volatility, but because of it.

Squire Wealth Advisors hosted our quarterly webinar series with Brian Haywood from Focus Partne. We discussed the current state of the market and what investors need to know.