Josh Nunn's Blog

Feb 20 – Only a select number of sectors have historically outperformed the S&P (reverted to the mean) when already underperforming: Top 3 being Consumer Discretionary, Industrials and Healthcare. However, what's even more interesting is...

Jul 10 – The market seems to think there are more reasons to be optimistic for the remainder of 2019 – we would be cautious to feel the same. To paint this picture, here are a few key observations we think are significant…

Jan 8 – China’s economic downturn continued last month adding to growing concerns over President Xi Jinping’s current plans to stabilize the economy and the implications of a trade agreement between China and the U.S. amid an on-going trade war...

Dec 3 – Consumer spending was up in October, signaling two-thirds of the economy is still showing optimism with their wallets, despite recent weakness abroad and a rough quarter for the stock market. There is soft data suggesting sluggish...

Nov 27 – Over the weekend, the EU and U.K. finally came to an agreement on the draft terms for the U.K.’s exit from the EU. However, risk of no-deal within the U.K. Parliament remains extremely high despite cabinet backing...

Nov 13 – Last week, the U.S. issued waivers to eight countries including China, India, Italy, South Korea, Turkey, Taiwan, Greece and Japan which allows them to continue importing Iranian crude, worsening oil producers' concerns about oversupply. On Friday, WTI and Brent...

Joshn Nunn – One of the biggest challenges that we face as financial planners is the expectation that we can predict the future. We’re not talking about predicting the winning numbers for tonight’s Powerball, but about the expectation...

By Josh Nunn – A few weeks ago, we discussed estate taxes and changes to the state exemptions with the recent passage of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. With the recent doubling of the federal exemption from...

By Josh Nunn – Marginal tax rates are a large part of an individual’s tax situation because, by definition, they determine the percentage an individual pays for every additional dollar of taxable income. We recently put together two charts showing the amount...

By Ryan Priess and Joshua Nunn – Financial Sense Wealth Management conducted a study looking at the returns of different sectors that underperformed the S&P 500 by at least 2 standard deviations or greater. Finding real value in “cheap” underperforming sectors is...