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Sheaff Brock Institutional | Current Geopolitical Risk for Investors

30 Oct

Dealing with Geopolitical Risks on Investors’ “Wall of Worry”

“Even when the financial markets are growing at a healthy rate, under financially sound circumstances, investors always find reasons to worry,” Investopedia authors observe. While a ‘wall of worry’ commonly comprises concerns on numerous fronts, geopolitical issues are undoubtedly affecting consumer and investor sentiment given today’s headlines and happenings. Interestingly, observes Sheaff Brock Managing Director Dave Gilreath, geopolitical risk is lower today than it has ever been. For one thing, there are more democracies in the world than ever before [...]

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Trade Wars | Wall of Worry | Sheaff Brock Institutional Group | Climbing Wall

03 Oct

Talking Clients Off the Trade War Wall of Worry

Your clients aren’t the only ones expressing worries about trade wars—everybody appears to be talking about them, says CNBC’s Elizabeth Schultz, But trade wars are nothing new, she reminds viewers as she interviews International Monetary Fund historian and Princeton professor Harold James. After a period beginning with the Smoot Hawley Act in 1930, continuing through the ”chicken wars” in the 1960s and trade disputes with Japan in the 1980s, there ensued several trade war-free decades. Now, with President Trump’s [...]

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Woman climbing a Wall of Worry | Sheaff Brock Institutional Group on REITs

13 Sep

Talking Investors Down Off the REIT Wall of Worry

Is the current market uptrend simply a function of investors’ “Wall of Worry,” that significant uncertainty about stock price sustainability? But what about REITs? “Long before investors fell in love with Facebook and Amazon.com or even the hot stocks of past generations such as utilities and railroads, real estate inspired dreams of wealth,” writes John Coumarianos. “Some financial advisers and pundits helped fuel the love affair, suggesting that investors could reduce volatility and boost returns by adding real-estate investment [...]