Is Your Portfolio Ready for 2025? Trends and Strategies for 2025; Jarvis® Update January 10, 2025
Release Date: 01/10/2025
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In this episode, Left Brain Wealth Management’s Brian Dress (Director of Research) and Noland Langford (CEO & CIO) take a level-headed look at the first half of 2025 and explore where smart investors are putting their money right now — without letting political noise cloud their decisions. We cover: • The real risks investors are facing in 2025 • Why mixing politics and investing is a dangerous cocktail • Where we see growth potential: AI, cybersecurity, digital ads & more • An overlooked 13% income opportunity with NLY, with the usual caveats that dividend income is not...
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0:00 Intro 1:02 Why Noland is at SaaStr this year 1:40 Topic 1: Recapping 2024 SaaStr 5:24 Topic 2: Trends and Takeaways from SaaStr Software companies and, consequently, software stocks, have been on a rollercoaster ride over the last three years. Rising interest rates and the emergence of AI are just two of the many challenges facing the software industry. In this week's Jarvis® Update, we take a slightly different direction than in our normal videos. CEO Noland Langford joins Director of Research, Brian Dress, live from the 2024 SaaStr Conference in San Mateo, CA. SaaStr is a huge...
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0:00 Intro 0:49 Market Recap 1:59 Topic 1: 2nd Quarter Earnings Review 8:36 Topic 2: Is This a Market in Transition? With 2nd quarter earnings moving toward a close, we are taking inventory of trends developing in the overall markets. Where information technology and communications services were the sectors dominating in the first half of 2024, we are starting to see some new trends developing, as interest rates begin to crest and move lower. In this week's Jarvis® Update, CEO Noland Langford and Director of Research, Brian Dress, discuss some of the most market-moving earnings over the past...
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1:20 Should You Make Changes Post-Election?
2:42 Topic 1: Preparing for a New Administration
5:20 Should You Be Looking at Financials?
8:34 Questioning International Investment Exposure
11:03 Where Can We Expect Outperformance and Underperformance in 2025?
14:39 Topic 2: Talking Interest Rates
19:05 What's New for Left Brain in 2025
New year, new us! We are excited to come to you with the first video of 2025 and in a brand new format. Our plan is to bring you videos of a higher production quality, but there will be some hiccups along the way.
We beg your pardon for less than stellar audio on our first effort from our brand new studio! We welcome your feedback on the new format, so please leave a comment below!
In this week's Jarvis® Update, CEO Noland Langford and Director of Research, Brian Dress, discuss trends and strategies in 2025. We look to address a question we've been hearing often "Should You Make Changes to Your Portfolio with a New Administration on the Way in to the White House?" If you're familiar with the Left Brain philosophy, we seek not to mix our investing with our politics.
Noland and Brian look at a few areas of potential outperformance (and underperformance) in a new political environment.
We close out the video with a discussion on the interest rate environment, along with what you can expect from Left Brain in 2025!
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