Podcast: Interest Rates (now on YouTube!)

October 21, 2020Podcast, YouTube
Hosted by Victor Schramm CFS®, AIF® & Pablo K. LashaToday's Podcast: Interest Rates We've been creating a series of podcast based on the theme of "Introduction to Macroeconomics." This is another entry into that series. Last time, we talked about money- what is it, how's it made, how's it measured, etc. This time, we talk [...]

Podcast: Cryptocurrencies

September 30, 2020Investing, Podcast
Hosted by Victor Schramm CFS®, AIF® & Pablo K. Lasha, CHSA®Today's Podcast: Cryptocurrency Cryptocurrency interest from the investing public goes hot and cold like no other asset we're aware of- we won't hear a mention of them for months or a year, and then a flurry of interest floods in all at once. We've been [...]

Faith & Finance Blog: Setting Your Money Intention for the Year

August 26, 2020Faith & Finance
By "Chaim" Victor Schramm, CFS®, AIF®Of Faith & Finance: Setting Your Money Intention for the Year Every year, before the New Year celebrations of Rosh Hashanah, it's customary to do our most intense spiritual housekeeping. On Passover, we get our physical house in order. Ideally. I certainly fell short of my Passover goals this year. [...]

Podcast: Municipal Bonds & Covid 19

July 21, 2020News, Podcast
Hosted by Victor Schramm CFS®, AIF® & Pablo K. Lasha, CHSA®Today's Podcast: Municipal Bonds & Covid 19 Covid 19 has had enormous economic impacts. Some of those impacts have been mitigated via political solutions (the CARES Act, the Federal Reserve's liquidity measures, etc.). Some of the impacts remain to be understood, and to us, Municipal [...]

Podcast: Where Does Money Come From?

July 1, 2020Podcast
Hosted by Victor Schramm CFS®, AIF® & Pablo K. LashaToday's Podcast: Econ Series Episode 1, Where Does Money Come From? Introducing a new installation in our podcast series: the Econ series. We'll be discussing introductory concepts in economics in this new podcast series. In this episode, we discuss a frequent area of confusion and source [...]

The Rise of Low Quality Investing- Catching the Falling Knives

June 16, 2020ETF's, News
By Victor Schramm, CFS®, AIF®Catching Falling Knives: Strange Behaviors of Equity Investors in 2020 Don't Run To Catch A Falling Knife. You'd think that this sound advice would be self-evidently true: Don't run to catch a falling knife. This is 2020, however, and in the current year, I'm done making assumptions about what is and is [...]

Why “Low Volatility” Funds Were Volatile During the Covid 19 Crash

June 10, 2020ETF's
By Victor Schramm, CFS®, AIF®Why "Low Volatility" Was not Low in Volatility If I told you a strategy of investing was "Low Risk," wouldn't you be disappointed if it turned out being higher risk than anything else? The market for Exchange Traded Funds (ETF's) has reacted with similar disappointment to the "Low Volatility" stocks in [...]

An Introduction to Investing in Hotels

May 21, 2020Investing, Podcast
Hosted by Victor Schramm CFS®, AIF® & Pablo K. LashaToday's Podcast: An Intro to Investing in Hotels Today, we talk all about hotel investing. This is the second episode in our new podcast series where we informally discuss market & investing topics. Clients have asked a lot about various Real Estate sectors- what we think, [...]

Chaim Investment Advisors Podcast: Oil Prices

May 7, 2020ETF's, Investing, Podcast
Hosted by Victor Schramm CFS®, AIF® & Pablo K. LashaToday's Podcast: All about Oil! We've been asked countless times to make podcast episodes, and we've finally gotten around to making a podcast episode. Today, we're talking about what's been happening in oil. Creating yet another podcast with a radio-style format has not been interesting to [...]