Ballast Equity Management, LLC Q1 2021 Commentary More information including since-inception performance for each of the strategies may be found at www.ballastequity.com. Vaccines and stimulus provided a double-barreled boost to equity markets in the quarter, with particularly sharp gains in lower quality, more economically sensitive stocks. These sharp gains produced significant headwinds for the quality-biased Read more ➝
Stonks, Stocks, Traders and Owners February 2021 If you owned two businesses, one profitable and growing and the other chronically losing money and languishing, to which would you allocate additional resources? Business owners are tasked with making successful capital allocation decisions that will propel their companies forward for the long-term benefit of their shareholders, their Read more ➝
Ballast Equity Management, LLC Q4 2020 Commentary More information including since-inception performance for each of the strategies may be found at www.ballastequity.com. 2020: A Long Strange Trip Investors who decided to ignore the news, leave their brokerage statements unopened and simply view the results of the full twelve months of 2020 would be both pleased Read more ➝
To borrow heavily from Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir of the Grateful Dead, what a long, strange trip 2020 has been. After beginning the year with great expectations (remember images like the one below?) and with the strong market returns of 2019 vivid in the minds of investors, the world faced the reality of a Read more ➝
Ballast Equity Management, LLC Q3 2020 Commentary Additional information and since-inception performance for each of the Ballast strategies may be found at www.ballastequity.com. Ballast Strategy Performance Market participants experienced two sharply different environments during the quarter with U.S. equities marching higher propelled by stimulus fuel in July and August while renewed investor concerns, market volatility, Read more ➝