Last Friday, members of Sellwood’s team spent the afternoon volunteering at Free Geek, a local nonprofit devoted to transforming technology into opportunity. By our estimation, we took apart 25 desktop computers, 10 ancient servers, and dozens of modems, reducing obsolete technology to its component parts, so that they could be responsibly recycled. Free Geek’s mission … Continue reading In the Community: Free Geek
Back in 2014, we wrote a piece, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Rates?, which argued that long-term investors in fixed income securities should not fear rising rates. At the time, we argued two things — first, that it is not the question of whether rates would rise, but rather the timing and pattern of … Continue reading Rise and Shine: Why Bond Investors Still Shouldn’t Fear Rising Rates
Note: These assumptions are now outdated. Our current capital market assumptions and our white paper documenting their construction can always be found on our Capital Market Assumptions page. Sellwood Consulting’s 2018 Capital Market Assumptions are available. These 10-year, forward-looking assumptions of asset class return, risk, and correlation are the key input variables for our asset allocation work on behalf … Continue reading 2018 Capital Market Assumptions
Loathe as we are to give any thought to short-term returns, the recent market correction has been interesting. The S&P 500 index peaked on January 26, before dropping approximately 2% over the next few trading sessions, and then dropping more precipitously during the week of February 5. On February 8, the market had declined by … Continue reading Postmortem of a Correction
In the spirit of the holiday season, every year Sellwood Consulting donates to a local charity on behalf of our clients. This year, we elected to support Habitat for Humanity. Every day, families of all sizes struggle to find affordable places to live. Rapidly rising rents force people to live in unsafe, unhealthy, and crowded … Continue reading Happy Holidays From Sellwood Consulting