Transcript: Tom Vaughan: So you’ve we’ve talked about the stock portion of the portfolio. What are you doing for the bond side of the portfolio? Yeah, that’s a good question. I apologize for not talking more about the bond side of the portfolio, because it is a big piece. We have clients that have as
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: The first question is kind of a common problem that a lot of our clients are having is, what do I do with a highly appreciated investment that isn’t performing very well in this market, you know, the markets down, but it’s performing worse than the market? Tom Vaughan: Yeah. So we’ve
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Now that the US is restricting some semiconductor sales to China, what is the market like Outlook for semiconductors, stocks and ETFs? And would this be a good buying opportunity since they kind of pushed down right now? Tom Vaughan: We saw NVIDIA dropped 11% this week because of the, their announcement
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Why is it better to pull from a non retirement taxable account than a IRA? So an individual retirement account? Tom Vaughan: Okay, so let’s see what we call the buckets of money. Right? Now we got his taxable accounts, people call them individual counts, brokerage accounts, Tod accounts, trust accounts, right,
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: How do you prioritize goals in retirement? Like not running out of money versus enjoying my retirement and spending my money too? So how do you prioritize that? Tom Vaughan: How do you prioritize good goals of not running out of money versus what I’m going to spend today? Right. So I
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Everybody, welcome to Thursday, the S&P 500 was up 1.2%. Today, we’ve had a lot of different things happening one of the busiest weeks of the year, that gross domestic product was reported it was down point 9%, that’s two down quarters in a row. Usually, that’s the definition of a recession.
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: What is a benchmark? You know, what are some of the big standard ones? And how do I make sure I’m using the right benchmark for my investments to evaluate its performance? Tom Vaughan: Yeah, so that’s, you know, what is a stock or bond market benchmark? It basically comes up quite
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Could you go into a little bit more detail why you see, gas being the beat, or Russian gas production being the biggest risk to the stock market in the cover? Seems like a trigger event? Tom Vaughan: Yeah. So I mean, that’s the question I’ve gotten several times is just, you
Transcript: Tom Vaughan: Here’s the S&P 500, so far year to date, and what we have here is a breakdown of, you know, the market. Overall, we can see that it’s been coming down, you know, since the beginning of the year, it actually hit the all time high there on the third of January,
Transcript: Easan Arulanantham: Why is oil crashing we’ve seen this week where it just kind of dropping quite hard compared to where it was a month ago. Tom Vaughan: Yeah, so the, I think the biggest reason oil has been coming down because it actually hit $130 A barrel as a high, got down to