Gavin W. Stephens
CFA

Goelzer Insights

• Investment Management: Everybody Loves a Story (Or, Why Not to Trade on Headlines) (July 14, 2025)
• Weekly Market Update: July 9, 2025: Markets Cheer, Labor Lags
• Weekly Market Update: June 18, 2025: Soft Inflation, Hard Choice: Why the Fed Will Stay the Course
• Weekly Market Update: May 14, 2025: Strong Tech Earnings Anchor Investor Optimism
• Weekly Market Update: April 30, 2025: Reading the Tea Leaves of GDP
• Weekly Market Update: April 23, 2025: President vs. The Fed
• Weekly Market Update: April 16, 2025: The Bond Market Not Behaving “As It Ought To”
• Investment Management: American Exceptionalism Amid a Gloom Bloom (April 14, 2025)
• Weekly Market Update: April 9, 2025: The Trump Tariffs Move Forward
• Weekly Market Update: April 2, 2025: International Stocks Come to Life
• Weekly Market Update: March 12, 2025: Dazed & Confused
• Weekly Market Update: February 26, 2025: Market Broadening Begins
• Weekly Market Update: February 12, 2025: Why the Job Market Will Keep the Fed Biased Toward Rate Cuts
• Weekly Market Update: January 22, 2025: Some Positive News on Inflation
• Investment Management: Our Annual Look Into the Future (January 14, 2025)
• Weekly Market Update: January 8, 2025: U.S. Stocks: More of the Same
• Weekly Market Update: December 31, 2024: How the U.S. Economy Surprised Again in 2024
• Weekly Market Update: December 11, 2024: Bad News Is Good News
• Investment Management: The Election Is Finally Over. Now What? (November 21, 2024)
• Weekly Market Update: November 6, 2024: A Cooling Market for U.S. Workers
• Weekly Market Update: October 23, 2024: The Federal Reserve Cuts Rates—And Rates Go Up
• Investment Management: Rates Are Coming Down. Now What? (October 15, 2024)
• Weekly Market Update: October 2, 2024: How Restrictive Are Interest Rates?
• Weekly Market Update: September 18, 2024: The Descent Is the Hardest Part
• Weekly Market Update: September 11, 2024: An Unpleasant, Yet Ordinary, Week in the Stock Market
• Weekly Market Update: August 28, 2024: Rate Cuts Are Coming… But How Many?
• Weekly Market Update: August 21, 2024: A Bad Dream, or More to Come?
• Weekly Market Update: August 8, 2024: Volatility Awakens from Its Slumbers
• Weekly Market Update: July 24, 2024: Stay Focused on Earnings
• Investment Management: Investment Implications of This Year’s Election (July 15, 2024)
• Weekly Market Update: July 10, 2024: Why Interest Rate Cuts Are Becoming More Likely
• Weekly Market Update: June 26, 2024: How Nvidia Became “The Most Important Stock in the World”
• Weekly Market Update: June 19, 2024: Positive News on the Inflation Front
• Weekly Market Update: June 5, 2024: The Fed Model: A Questionable Timing Tool
• Weekly Market Update: May 15, 2024: Why Are Consumers Pessimistic?
• Weekly Market Update: May 1, 2024: Why Budget Deficits Matter
• Investment Management: Narrow Stock Market, Again (April 15, 2024)
• Investment Management: Our Annual Look into the Future (January 16, 2024)
• Company News: Gavin W. Stephens, CFA to Serve as Chief Investment Officer (December 27, 2023)
• Investment Management: Where’s My Recession? (October 16, 2023)
• Investment Management: Thoughts on the Fallout from Silicon Valley Bank (March 16, 2023)
• In The Press: TD Ameritrade Network, December 16, 2022 (December 16, 2022)
• Investment Management: When Good News Is Bad News (October 17, 2022)
• In The Press: The Bond Buyer, July 28, 2022 (July 28, 2022)
• In The Press: MarketWatch, July 26, 2022 (July 26, 2022)
• In The Press: The Wall Street Journal, June 22, 2022 (June 22, 2022)
• Investment Management: Is a Fed Put in Play? (May 16, 2022)
• In The Press: The Bond Buyer, April 27, 2022 (April 27, 2022)
• Investment Management: On the Probability of Recession (April 25, 2022)
• In The Press: Reuters, April 22, 2022 (April 22, 2022)
• In The Press: The Bond Buyer, April 18, 2022 (April 18, 2022)
• Investment Management: War in Ukraine: Implications for the Economy and Markets (April 11, 2022)
• In The Press: MarketWatch, March 25, 2022 (March 25, 2022)
• In The Press: The Bond Buyer, March 24, 2022 (March 24, 2022)
• In The Press: Barron’s, March 23, 2022 (March 23, 2022)
• Investment Management: Where Have the Vigilantes Gone? (October 14, 2021)
• Institutional Investors: Spending Guidelines for Institutional Investors (September 6, 2019)
• Institutional Investors: Why Own Bonds? (August 1, 2018)
• Institutional Investors: Why Your Bonds Should Be Actively Managed (August 1, 2018)
• Institutional Investors: Managing Bonds When Interest Rates are Rising (April 1, 2017)