Concentration Risk in the Equity Market
A growing challenge for the equity market is concentration risk, defined as a high level of reliance in a portfolio on a particular security, [...]
Is This Time Different? A Comparison of Today’s Stock Market to the Dot-Com Bubble of 2000 and Housing Bubble of 2008
CCM’s history stretches back well over thirty years, and the two darkest periods for the stock market during our tenure were the Dot-Com Bubble [...]
Equity Markets Reaction To Rising Interest Rates
As control of the global pandemic is underway and case numbers are turning lower, rising interest rates due to a corresponding increase in economic [...]
Why Do We Buy a Stock?
Frequently we get the question of why we buy a stock, along with the related question of why did we sell a stock (or [...]
Increasing Interest Rates and Equity Markets
Historically, the yield curve has effectively been a real-time business cycle indicator. The market’s growth and inflation expectations are projected at the long-end, while [...]