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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
By Victor Schramm, CFS®, AIF®An Introduction to Fixed Annuities If you google "Annuities" right now, you'll see a lot about Variable Annuities. Even on Chaim Investment Advisors, you'll see Variable Annuities discussed far more than Fixed Annuities. This is largely because the Variable Annuity is one of the more flexible investing vehicles out there in [...]
By Victor Schramm, CFS®, AIF®"Is Gold a Safe Investment?" Is gold a safe investment right now? I've heard this question countless times in my career and usually around times when the stock market is down a fair amount. I've never been asked this so many times as in the past week. It seems this is [...]
By Victor Schramm, CFS®, AIF®Notes on Coronavirus and Market Volatility The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets.- Baron Rothschild I share the grim epigraph above from Baron Rothschild because it's my favorite quote on investing. Some might be surprised to read that, because I am decidedly uncomfortable with profiting from mass [...]