September 2020 – Market Commentary

Market CommentaryJust like July, August proved to be a profitable month for both our portfolios and the stock market indices.  The DOW Jones is still down year to date, but made more strides in August in get back to break even (Source: ...
Welcome to Summit Financial Consulting

Welcome to Summit Financial Consulting

Hello, and welcome to Summit Financial Consulting’s refreshed and relaunched blog. There will be plenty of market insight and useful information to be found here in the coming days and weeks, but with this post, we would like to re-introduce ourselves.

Mutual Funds vs. ETFs: Simple Guide to Diversifying Your Portfolio

Mutual Funds vs. ETFs: Simple Guide to Diversifying Your Portfolio

Now that we have finished discussing diversification, we will dive into the most popular and arguably one of the easiest ways to diversify. That is right. This month, we are comparing and contrasting Mutual Funds and Exchange-Traded Funds. (If you have not read the...
Stock Market Commentary August 2020

Stock Market Commentary August 2020

Market CommentaryJuly proved to be a profitable month for both our portfolios and the stock market indices.  While the DOW Jones is still down about 11% from the highs earlier this year, it made some progress in July (Source: ...
Stock Market Commentary July 2020

Stock Market Commentary July 2020

Market Commentary The ongoing Covid pandemic affected the market, both higher and lower, in June.  In our last market commentary, we said the probability of a short term pull back was very high and just a few days after our commentary was posted, from June 8th until...