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In an ever changing financial climate, it can be difficult to confidently create a financial strategy, let alone have the time to manage one that can grow with you over the years. But without an up-to-date and flexible strategy in place, it can be difficult for you to achieve your goals.

Tallus Wealth Management is an independent financial services firm dedicated to assisting clients with their greatest financial concerns. We offer comprehensive investment management and financial strategies coupled with objective advice and recommendations. Our utmost goal is to provide customized strategies that can grow with clients throughout the many milestones of life.

Outlook 2023: Finding Balance

Through all the challenges, newfound opportunities, and every high and low we’ve experienced during the last couple of years, it’s no surprise why we might be striving for more balance.

UNDERSTANDING TODAY’S FINANCIAL ENVIRONMENT

We can help take the mystery out of preparing for today and tomorrow. Whether your goal is preparing for retirement, college savings, or estate strategy, our personalized service focuses on your needs, wants, and financial objectives.

ARE YOU RETIREMENT READY?

At Tallus Wealth Management, we understand the many concerns individuals and families face as they prepare for retirement, whether that is five or fifteen years away. Our goal is to help clients feel confident about their future and pursue their vision of a comfortable retirement. Through our comprehensive approach, we develop customized retirement strategies that address clients’ individual needs and goals, both short and long term.

RECENT NEWS

Evaluating Stock and Bond Market Predictions From 2024 | Weekly Market Commentary | January 6, 2025

Evaluating Stock and Bond Market Predictions From 2024 | Weekly Market Commentary | January 6, 2025

With 2024 fully behind us, it’s a good time to celebrate our winning calls from last year while also reviewing some mistakes to learn from them and improve our process. The good news is we got more right than wrong last year, but there were some misses. Some course corrections helped. Perhaps the most impactful decision we made was to recommend investors stay fully invested in equities at benchmark levels throughout the entire year despite expecting a stock market pullback around Election Day.

Evaluating Stock and Bond Market Predictions From 2024 | Weekly Market Commentary | January 6, 2025

Keys to Stock Market Gains in 2025 | Weekly Market Commentary | December 30, 2024

As 2024 draws to a close, investors have fully embraced the stock market. The S&P 500 is up more than 25% year to date. The broader Russell 3000 Index is up 24%. The Nasdaq Composite is up over 31%. Even the laggards are up double-digits with 12% and 14% advances for the small cap Russell 2000 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Volatility was low, with a maximum peak-to-trough decline for the S&P 500 of 8.5% (the long-term average max drawdown is over 13%). As we turn our attention to 2025, the supports of the past year largely remain in place, but some additional pillars have been added as we discuss below.

Evaluating Stock and Bond Market Predictions From 2024 | Weekly Market Commentary | January 6, 2025

The Fed Resets Expectations for Next Year | Weekly Market Commentary | December 23, 2024

The Federal Reserve (Fed) is moving more cautiously in adjusting policy, and markets might have a hard time resetting expectations. Throughout the latest press conference with Fed Chair Jerome Powell, equity markets declined as investors were befuddled with the large upward revision to 2025 inflation forecasts; despite disappointing inflation projections, the “vibecession” is over as businesses and consumers have become more optimistic.

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