by Amaury de Barros Conti | May 10, 2022 | Market Updates
On May 5, a day after celebrating the Federal Reserve’s signal that it would not be making any jumbo-sized interest rate moves, the Dow fell by a headline-grabbing 1,063 points. This translates into a drop of 3.1%. Other equity markets did not fare as well. The...
by Amaury de Barros Conti | Mar 29, 2022 | Market Updates, Sendero Articles
Now that the Fed has raised rates, investors are looking at the (Treasury) curve for an indication of what’s next for the economy. Historically, the spread between 2-Year and 10-Year Treasuries, known as the “2-10 spread”, has commonly been used to forecast potential...
by Amaury de Barros Conti | Mar 15, 2022 | Market Updates
You have heard the cliché, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” But you may be less familiar with Nobel Prize laureate Harry Markowitz’s quote, “Diversification is the only free lunch” in investing. Markowitz is best known for his pioneering work in modern...