The importance of today, with all its opportunity and challenges, is why we segment dollars within your portfolio. In the short-term, years like 2022, when stocks and bonds both finish below average, it may be easy to feel down about the present.

Running from a startled bear in a down market gives way to chase and exhaustion. So instead, we exercise patience and look for opportunities to position for recovery. For example, rebalancing, tax-loss swapping, and focusing on investment valuations, specifically in the longer-term portfolio segments.

Financial markets and economies can move like a pendulum swinging side to side, exceeding the bounds of moving averages on occasion. While it may be tempting to believe that today's conditions will be with us forever, history reminds us that this too shall pass.