Market Updates

Click below to listen to Kavar Capital Partners discuss 2021 year in review, dissecting the volatility in the New Year, understanding the impact of inflation and implications of Fed tightening in 2022 and beyond.  In order to view the market update webinar facilitated through... Read More →

Courtesy of a 4th quarter rally, stocks finished 2021 on a high note as the US stock market once again displayed resiliency throughout the year.  Major benchmarks finished near all-time highs and generally dodged any significant and largescale drawdowns (or volatility scares) while contending... Read More →

Third Quarter 2021 Review The 3rd quarter of the year ended last week with the market in the midst of the first significant bout of volatility for 2021.   To start this week, the market sold off some more, with the S&P 500 losing -1.30%... Read More →

At the halfway point of 2021 markets continue to push upwards as the re-opening economy booms.  The S&P 500 was up +8.55% for the 2nd quarter, eclipsing the +6.17% for the 1st quarter of the year and bringing the year-to-date return to +15.25% through... Read More →

Click below to listen to Kavar Capital Partners discuss 2020 market performance, attribution and perspective, stimulus/legislative implications on the markets/economy, Covid updates – vaccines/transmission/etc. and planning thoughts – items to consider in the new year.  Market Update Call 3.3.2021

This week marks one-year since stocks hit their pre-COVID highs.  In the twelve months since those highs, investors experienced a monumental period for the markets that ran the gamut from a crash with the peak of volatility to “face-ripping” rallies to such downright odd... Read More →

Click below to listen to Kavar Capital Partners discuss the Fiscal/Monetary Response to COVID 19, YTD Asset Class Review & Identification of Opportunities and a Virus Update – stats on testing, hospitalization, fatalities, transmission rates, vaccine/therapeutics. Market Update Call 7.30.20

Are the markets too positive for the situation? After crashing -35.4% from its intraday all-time high to the intraday crash low on March 23rd, the S&P 500 has ripped back +46.3% from that level to the close on June 9th, nearly retracing all the... Read More →