“In a lot of ways, it’s following a typical playbook,” said Jerry Braakman, chief investment officer and president of First American Trust in Santa Ana, California. Read more about the current stock market and how investors are reacting in this article by Bloomberg.
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To Jerry Braakman, chief investment officer and president of First American Trust, it makes sense the market has dropped almost 15% since the start of the year. “Stocks trade on the future,” he said by phone. As stock continue to drop, investors are looking into estimating profits as Corporate America is doing well. Supply chain, the war in ...
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“People have to be very cautious here in chasing this dip, especially as these economic impacts and fears start affecting our economy as well through consumer confidence,” said Jerry Braakman, President and Chief Investment Officer of First American Trust. Changes in stocks, commodities, currencies, and bonds are still largely being affected by ...
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UC Irvine Professor Christopher Schwarz, Ph.D. and First American Trust President and CIO, Jerry Braakman discuss a wide range of topics regarding the factors that are shaping our financial world today. Some of the topics include:
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“As we continue to isolate Russia because of their actions, there will be some turmoil in the markets,” said President and Chief Investment Officer, Jerry Braakman. The increasing tensions over the invasion of Ukraine is influencing the economy in many ways including increasing oil prices, multiple countries severing ties with some Russian banks ...
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“We had an incredible 2021 when we look at U.S. domestic equity market returns, and as we head into the first part of the year it has not been as fun or exciting,” stated Jerry Braakman. “We'll talk through that and explain what is going on, why the market is reacting and how to prepare for that as well.” Jerry Braakman, President and Chief ...
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Equity markets rounded out a strong 2021 with an impressive fourth-quarter move. All three major market indices had gains of at least 8%, led by the S&P 500. The market move was even more impressive considering the environment. The fourth quarter started and ended with COVID Delta and Omicron variant infections, respectively. The market took ...
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The Federal Reserve is expected to raise interest rates even more throughout 2022 and consumer stocks are showing disappointing results. As the stock market declined Friday afternoon, “all risk premium assets—crypto, high leverage, growth names—are being impacted, and what’s working right now is the opposite of that, quality stocks,” stated Jerry ...
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Jerry Braakman, Chief Investment Officer and President, stated “what we’ve seen in the past when rates move up either through Fed rate-hike expectations being pulled forward or the 10-year moving up, it seems that tech and some of the growth models get hit more on the valuation side.” In 2022, as the U.S. Federal Reserve is preparing to adjust ...
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Jerry Braakman, Chief Investment Officer, stated “AT&T looked like their strategy was struggling, so we decided not to continue to ride something down.” First American Trust held AT&T shares for many years but sold them over a year ago in December 2020. Currently, there is a lot of uncertainty about AT&T, especially with their May 2020 ...
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“The nieces and nephews are talking about it, the aunts and uncles are trying to figure out what it’s about,” said Jerry Braakman.
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