Market Review Press Releases

"The big money is not in the buying or the selling, but in the waiting" – Charlie Munger

Trajan Wealth shares its October 2024 Market Review, authored by Chief Investment Officer Udayan Mitra, CFA. Read the full review here. October 2024 Market Review Following the 2024 US General Election, US equities are up, while bonds are declining.

"The global financial crisis - missed by most analysts - shows that most forecasters are poor at pricing in economic/financial risks, let alone geopolitical ones."- Nouriel Roubini

"The most contrarian thing of all is not to oppose the crowd, but to think for yourself." - Peter Thiel.

"The problem with interest rates are that you are not modeling a single number, you are modeling a whole term structure, so it is a sort of different type of problem." - John Hull, Professor of Finance, University of Toronto

Trajan Wealth's chief investment officer, Udayan Mitra, CFA, analyzes February's "Goldilocks" financial market. Mitra has 20+ years in investment management, a B.S.

"Interest rates are to asset prices what gravity is to the apple. When there are low-interest rates, there is a very low gravitational pull on asset prices." - Warren Buffett

"The FOMC has considerable control over short-term interest rates. We have much less influence over longer term rates, which are set in the marketplace." - Jerome Powell. Chairman, Federal Reserve Bank