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In the face of COVID-19, the benefits of investing in your employees are even more pronounced than in the past -- companies need innovation and high productivity from their workers now more than ever, and workers need to know that you’ll have their backs well into the future. So, if you...

The following comments come from Capital Brain Advisor Dr. Larry Souza's presentation at the Certified Commercial Investment Member annual meeting. Below the main points regarding the post-COVID commercial real estate market: Due to the increase of remote living and virtual...

Equity markets have been on a one-way winning streak for over a decade. It is easy to compare today’s conditions with those leading up to the dot-com crash of 2001. During that time, every tech stock was a “buy.” This created certain conditions that made trading appear “easy...

2020 was a very successful year for the entire cryptocurrency world. Despite the many financial, economic and political upheavals that have happened to us over the past 12 months, the blockchain industry has made significant headway. The outgoing year saw the long-awaited launch of Ethereum 2.0, a...

Bank stocks have taken a hit with the forced economic shutdown. And already big banks have cut their share repurchase programs. Some investors are now worried about the bank dividends, and for good reason. The government has helped prop up the economy but loan losses are still expected to soar....

The lesson many investors have taken away from the market is that if they just buy and hold long enough, eventually their investments will rise. I do believe this is broadly true, particularly when it comes to U.S. stocks. However, it’s also true that if the time frame is long enough, any...

Owning a home might be the epitome of the American dream, but it’s not engraved in stone! So, if you’ve been toying with the idea of giving up homeownership, then, by all means, go for it.  However, given that homeownership is perceived as the hallmark of wealth, giving it up is...

This year has been the year of the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), but next year could be even bigger, according to Goldman Sachs. The firm reports that 206 SPACs raised a record $70 billion in proceeds from initial public offerings so far this year.  That's an increase of...

The following originally appeared on CapitalWatch “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.” The famous opening line from Dickens’ classic A Tale of Two Cities would seem an equally apropos descriptor of the 2020 U.S. equity markets as it did the socio-economic life of...

The news of a COVID-19 vaccine from Pfizer Inc (NYSE: PFE) and BioNTech (NASDAQ: BNTX) offers more than a glimmer of hope, especially when the United States is consistently breaking its record on average daily infection rates. However, the rotation out of pandemic and stay-at-home stocks may be a...

Sometimes there can be too much of a good thing, even in the investment world. The current explosion of Registered Investment Advisor (RIA) firms has given average investors an alternative to the regular brokerage houses for investment advice. This alternative comes with a higher standard of care...