by Jeff Krumpelman, CFA® | May 7, 2026 | Insights
The S&P 500 rebounded sharply in April, rising 10.5% and bringing year-to-date returns to 5.7%. Looking across major indices, emerging markets and small cap stocks outperformed the S&P 500, while developed international equities posted solid, albeit less...
by Jeff Krumpelman, CFA® | Apr 2, 2026 | Insights
The S&P 500 finished the month of March down 5.0%, bringing year-to-date losses to 4.3%. There were very few places to hide, as 10-year Treasury yields rose from 3.96% to 4.32%, gold declined 11%, and international equities underperformed their domestic...
by Jeff Krumpelman, CFA® | Mar 6, 2026 | Insights
The S&P 500 finished the month down 0.8%, bringing year-to-date returns to 0.7%1. During our Crystal Ball Outlook, we outlined 2026 as the year of “Risk Awareness and Diversification 2.0 (RAD),” calling for broader leadership across the market, not just within the...
by Jeff Krumpelman, CFA® | Jan 2, 2026 | Insights
We wouldn’t call it a scorching Santa Claus rally, but the S&P 500 was able to hang on and post a positive total return of roughly 2.7% in Q4 2025. This put a nice cherry on top of another solid year for US equity investors. In calendar 2025, the S&P 500...
by Jeff Krumpelman, CFA® | Dec 8, 2025 | Insights
The S&P 500 finished November up 0.2%, bringing year to date returns to 17.8% through month end. A flat month on the surface doesn’t quite capture the experience investors lived through, as it took a late-month rally to pull the index back to where it started....
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