Pacific Capital Associates

05/18/2023

May 15, 2023: We've added a great financial planning/portfolio construction tool to enhance our current systems. In this article we'll outline the value it

07/08/2022

July 8, 2022: Our primary goal is to help our clients grow their investments over time, and hugely important to that pursuit is the avoidance of disaster alo

05/03/2022

How’s the bubble doing? (short answer: not well)
In February, we suggested that the US growth stock bubble we’d been discussing since last year might have peaked.

May 2, 2022: In this article we’re going to discuss signs of a bursting US growth stock bubble, the downturn in global markets more broadly, our investment

03/09/2022

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03/08/2022

March 7, 2022:

Like everyone, we’ve been riveted and horrified by the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Some clients have asked about investment implications, so we put together a few thoughts below.

For some perspective, Russia represented about 2% of global economic activity, and Ukraine a lot less than that.

For some perspective, Russia represented about 2% of global economic activity, and Ukraine a lot less than that. While the conflict has been terrible for Russian and Ukrainian economies and financial assets, those are a very small part of the whole.

02/18/2022

February 17, 2022: A year ago, we wrote a piece expressing the view that US growth stocks had entered a major speculative bubble. We didn’t know when that

02/15/2022

October 15, 2021: In this article, we’ll discuss the housing market – the causes of the price boom, how sustainable they are, and how this compared to the

02/15/2022

December 2, 2021: Inflation has been a hot topic as consumers have recently been hit with the fastest price increases in decades. Investors are wondering