Joe Shearrer, CPFA® is Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Fervent Wealth Management.   When the world feels uncertain — inflation high, government debt ballooning, central banks under pressure — investors tend to look beyond the dollar for a safety net. Gold, the age-old hedge, often leads that retreat. But to understand why, you must see them not as speculative gambles, but as symptoms of a deeper impulse: the urge to preserve value when faith in paper money wavers.   Gold

Inflation remains above the central bank’s 2% target, but signs of a cooling labor market — slower job creation, rising jobless claims — appear to have convinced policymakers that keeping rates elevated may do more harm than good.

For nearly a century, September has been the S&P 500’s weakest month. Since 1928, the index has averaged a decline of just over one percent and has finished lower more than half the time...

Joe Shearrer, CPFA® is Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Fervent Wealth Management.   Since bottoming out in April, the U.S. stock...

Joe Shearrer, CPFA® is Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Fervent Wealth Management.   When I was a kid, I used to watch “The Beverly...

Joe Shearrer, CPFA® is Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Fervent Wealth Management.   I was talking with my wife over coffee this...

But in today's economic environment, many question whether the traditional 60/40 mix still holds up. Here's why this once-iconic strategy may no longer be good enough.

The stock market, it seems, has had a similar streak — from cold to hot in record time. After a sharp and unsettling drop in early April...

It struck me how much this moment mirrors the decision facing investors right now. Wall Street is at a crossroads—and it's not a gentle fork in a well-worn trail.

Like in pinball, success in this environment doesn't come from trying to control every bounce. It comes from knowing how to play the game...

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Much like a golf cart navigating the course, the economy is constantly adjusting to changing conditions.

As of February 12, 2025, the U.S. economy and stock market are navigating a complex landscape shaped by recent policy decisions, inflation..

Joe Shearrer is Vice President and Wealth Advisor at Fervent Wealth Management.   This past Monday, my wife and I took our kids to Silver...

While we are just over a week removed from Election Day, the clouds of uncertainty seemed to part as Donald Trump was decisively elected...

The Fed matters, but has it been getting too much attention? Since the Fed's announcement, the 10-year yield has risen, not fallen.