By "Chaim" Victor Schramm CFS®, AIF®The Rise of Low Quality Investing: Gamestop In June of 2020, I wrote one of this website's most popular articles to date, titled The Rise of Low Quality Investing: Catching The Falling Knives. 1 If you're interested in the topic of what I'm dubbing "Low Quality Investing," I do recommend reading that article. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
By "Chaim" Victor Schramm, CFS®, AIF®Election Turbulence for Markets The High Holidays of the Jewish faith are kicking off this week. Each year, we go in to maintenance mode over the holiday stretch here at Chaim Investment Advisors- between long worship services and Fasts, we are intermittently available and available for emergencies. I wanted to [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
