Insight & Commentaries
The “Profit” / “Quality” Connection
The Case for Laddering Bonds
Kevin Caron on CNBC’s Worldwide Exchange
Breaking Down the Economic Scene: How Deficits Impact Your Portfolio
Kevin Caron on Fox Business
Viewpoint 2024
W.W. Grainger Q2 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Johnson & Johnson Q2 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Procter & Gamble Q2 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Colgate-Palmolive Q1 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Genuine Parts Company Q1 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Tractor Supply Company Q1 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Air Products Q1 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Waste Management Q1 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Qualityland
Merck Q1 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Nike Q1 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Investing In The Age of Rising Rates
Kevin Caron on CNBC’s Power Lunch
ADP Q1 ’24 Dividend Announcement
Emerson Electric Q4 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Visa Q4 ’23 Dividend Announcement
The Case for Rising Dividends October 2023
Q4 2023 Conquest Tactical Asset Allocation
Kevin Caron on CNBC
Lockheed Martin Q4 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Texas Instruments Q3 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Starbucks Q3 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Microsoft Q3 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Equity Risk Premium: What’s It All About?
WCA’s Unique Approach to Quality
The Necessity of a Strong Consumer
Illinois Tool Works Q3 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Quality and Certainty
Clorox Q3 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Q3 2023 Conquest Tactical Asset Allocation
Cummins Inc Q3 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Low-Quality Leadership Fading Fast
UnitedHealth Group Q2 ’23 Dividend Announcement
A Host of Contradictions
A New Bull Market?
Debt Negotiations and Uncertainty: Importance of Quality Focus
Consistency and Quality
Johnson & Johnson Q1 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Q2 2023 Conquest Tactical Asset Allocation
Truth About “Passive” Investing
Colgate-Palmolive Company Q1 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Putting Quality to the Test
Seeking Quality? Start with Profitability
Linde plc (NYSE: LIN) Q1 ’23 Dividend Announcement
Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC)
Home Depot (NYSE: HD) Q1 ’23
The Coca-Cola Company (NYSE: KO) Q1 ’23
Some Improvement
Tractor Supply Company (NASDAQ: TSCO) Q1 ’23
3M (NYSE: MMM) Q1 ’23
Church and Dwight (NYSE: CHD) Q1 ’23
Eyes Overseas
Viewpoint 2023
Reexamining Quality
International Monetary Fund: Worst is Yet to Come
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) Q1 ’23
Ecolab Inc. (NYSE: ECL) Q1 ’23
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM) Q1 ’23
Merck (NYSE: MRK) Q1 ’23
A Warning Over Speculative Debt
What Will Drive Return?
Visa Inc. (NYSE: V) Q4 ’22
Q4 2022 Tactical Asset Allocation
Lockheed Martin Corporation (NYSE: LMT) Q3 ’22
Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) Q3 ’22
Good Advice
Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) Q3 ’22
Asking Better Questions
Recession or Booming?
Illinois Tool Works Inc. (NYSE: ITW) Q3 ’22
Municipal Bond Primer
Real Estate and Confidence
Real Estate and Confidence
The J.M. Smucker Co. (NYSE: SJM) Q3 ’22
The Clorox Company (NYSE: CLX) Q3 ’22
Marsh McLennan (NYSE: MMC) Q3 ’22
Cummins Inc. (NYSE: CMI) Q3 ’22
Q3 2022 Tactical Asset Allocation
The Inflation Threat
Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) Q2 ’22
UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) Q2 ’22
Of Bulls and Bears
Medtronic plc (NYSE: MDT) Q2 ’22
Down to Earth?
Rate Shock: How Bad is It?
Baxter International Inc. (NYSE: BAX) Q2 ’22
PepsiCo, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEP) Q2 ’22
Raytheon Technologies Corporation (NYSE: RTX) Q2 ’22
Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) Q2 ’22
Q2 2022 Tactical Asset Allocation
Procter and Gamble (NYSE: PG) Q2 ’22
Expectations and Cycles
Assessing Incoming Data
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) Q122
Linde plc (NYSE:LIN; FWB:LIN) Q122
Veil Over Eastern Europe
Home Depot, Inc. (NYSE: HD) Q1 ’22
Genuine Parts Company (NYSE: GPC) Q122
Coca-Cola (NYSE: KO) Q122
Walmart Inc. (NYSE: WMT) Q122
3M (NYSE: MMM) Q122
The Changes at Hand
When Going Gets Tough: Quality or Yield?
Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE: CHD) Q122
Viewpoint 2022
Union Pacific Corporation (NYSE: UNP)
Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)
Waste Management, Inc. (NYSE: WM)
Five Reasons for Caution
Ecolab Inc. (NYSE: ECL)
Merck (NYSE: MRK)
Beta, Revisited
What Matters Most
Inflation: Still a Monetary Phenomenon
Closing Overweight Tactical Tilt
Putting Dividend Growth to the Test
MuniWatch — Fall 2021
Q4 2021 Tactical Asset Allocation
A Market’s Tall Order
Downshift
Risk in Portfolio Management
Basic Math
What Price for Quality?
The Inflation Challenge
The Magic Garden of Growth
Q3 2021 Tactical Asset Allocation
Illusion and Reality
Dividend Growers Dominate Other Dividend Categories
A Discussion Worth Having
Dividend Growth for the Long Term
Great Expectations or Just High Hopes?
TAA Review — 2021Q2
Leverage and Quality
(More) Spending on the Way
The Rate Conundrum
Q2 2021 Tactical Asset Allocation
Quality First
Trimming Equity Exposure
Trimming Equity Exposure
Viewpoint 2021
Valuations, Revisited
Valuations, Revisited
Quality over “Style”
Cash as a “Real Option”
Boom
China: Trade Wars and Treasuries
Still Bullish on Bonds?
Boom
To The Bone
Quality Over “Style”
A Good Decade
Shifting Ground
Dividends Are Front Page News
Emerging Opportunity?
Q4 2020 Tactical Asset Allocation
Buying the Big Five?
What Next?
Time for Tactical?
Kevin Caron: Bloomberg
MuniWatch — August 2020
Steady-As-She-Goes
The Muddled Middle (But Improving)
Focus on Flexibility Over Yield
Kevin Caron on Technology Investing (CNBC)
Another Round, Please
Q3 2020 Tactical Asset Allocation
What a Quarter
Valuation During Recession
The Case for Quality
A Decade of Performance — U.S. Proves Naysayers Wrong
Bears, Bulls, and Zombies
Half Full
Dividend Cuts
Hints of Progress
Signs of Stability
Tracking Recovery
The Case for Rising Dividends
Investing in Times of Uncertainty
Q2 Tactical Asset Allocation
To Play it Safe
A Month’s Time
Perspective on Market Conditions
Safe Havens
Markets React to Coronavirus Spread
A Hit to Q1 Growth
The Coronavirus Factor
A Path Forward
The Bull Run
Viewpoint 2020
Up, Down, Sideways, Repeat
50 Years On
Barometer Nudges Higher — Small Increase to Equity Allocation
Things Look Good (On the Surface)
WCA Rising Dividend Commentary – Third Quarter, 2019
Q4 2019 Tactical Asset Allocation
Emerging Portfolio Themes
Trade War — Who Holds the Cards?
How Trade Policies Lead to U.S. Debt
China, Trade, and Investment
The Trade Mess — How Did We Get Here?
Central Bank to Cut Rate
Q3 2019 Tactical Asset Allocation
Steady As She Goes
Weekend Détente
Are Bonds Giving a Recession Warning?
Mixed Messages
Growth Picks Up as Investment Lags
Valuations, Investment, and Growth
Chad Morganlander – CNBC
A World Without Yield… Still…
Kevin Caron – BNN Bloomberg
Q2 Tactical Asset Allocation 2019
A Turning Point?
A Stall in Germany Further Dampens Europe’s Outlook
Expectation Setting
Central Banks Fall In-Line
Kevin Caron — CNBC
Is A Turn in Growth At Hand?
Kevin Caron — CNBC
Stocks Rally in Anticipation of Good News
Chad Morganlander – CNBC
PBS – Kevin Caron
Kevin Caron – CNBC
Chad Morganlander – CNBC
Chad Morganlander – BNN
Kevin Caron – Bloomberg
Matthew Battipaglia – BNN Bloomberg
Monday Morning Minute ~ February 4, 2019
Monday Morning Minute ~ January 28, 2019
Monday Morning Minute ~ January 7, 2019
Viewpoint 2019
Monday Morning Minute ~ December 10, 2018
Monday Morning Minute ~ December 3, 2018
Monday Morning Minute ~ November 19, 2018
Monday Morning Minute ~ November 5, 2018
Monday Morning Minute ~ October 22, 2018
Monday Morning Minute ~ October 15, 2018
Monday Morning Minute ~ October 8, 2018
Q4 2018 Tactical Asset Allocation
Monday Morning Minute ~ October 1, 2018
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Principle 1: Avoid Costly Emotions
Principle 2: Expect Market Declines
Principle 3: Understand the Nature of Volatility
Principle 4: Consider a Balanced Approach
Principle 5: Balance “Now” and “Later” Risk
Principle 6: For Consistency, Consider Asset Allocation
Principle 7: Focus on Income Growth, Not Current Yield
Principle 8: Match Your Strategy to Your Goals
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Q3 2018 Tactical Asset Allocation
2018 Viewpoint
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Q2 2018 Tactical Asset Allocation
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Kevin Caron – CNBC
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2017 Fourth Quarter Tactical Asset Allocation Report
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Q3 2017 Tactical Asset Allocation
Q2 2017 Tactical Asset Allocation
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2017 Viewpoint
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Q4 2016 Tactical Asset Allocation
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Barometer Update
The Week Ahead
Viewpoint
Earnings and Valuations
Barometer Improves
Strong Job Gains
Q3 2016 Tactical Asset Allocation
Markets Digest Brexit
The Week Ahead: May 16, 2016
Q2 2016 Tactical Asset Allocation
Weekly Comment
Weekly Comment
The Real Reason Growth is So Slow
WCA Weekly Update
Emerging Markets Update
Employment — Not the Root Cause of Inflation
Earnings Season is Underway
FRB Atlanta Sees Q4 Growth of 0.6%
China
International Concerns Out of the Gate
2016 Viewpoint
Closing Out 2015
Shortened Week Ahead
Ingredients for Growth
Growth Slows and Caution Increases in 2015
Fourth Quarter Asset Allocation Report
Fed Strikes More Hawkish Tone
Global Growth Disappoints
2015 Needs a Boost
Third Quarter Earnings Preview
Next Up: The Fed
Sticking With U.S. Focus
To Raise or Not to Raise
Reality, Risk and Return
Countdown to Liftoff
Emerging Markets Tactical View
Q3 2015 Tactical Asset Allocation
Focus on Quality and Diversification
Greece’s Troubles
Six Recent Signs of a Pickup
Revisiting Long-Run Views
Employment Gains Back On Track
In Support of Rising Dividends
European Equities
Q2 2015 Tactical Asset Allocation
Year Six and Counting
Fed Sees Softer Economy
Nightly Business Report: Market Monitor: Kevin Caron
What the U.S. Offers Global Investors
Negative Surprise in Manufacturing Survey
Let it Grow
Failure to Communicate
United States — Still the Best Alternative
Waiting on Mario Draghi
Emerging Markets Update
WCA 2015 Macro View
Q1 2014 Tactical Asset Allocation
The Oil Story – A Net Benefit
U.S. Economy Closing Out ’14 in Good Form
Fundamental View Remains Optimistic
U.S. Still Strong as Foreign Conditions Weaken
U.S. Fundamentals Remain Positive
Fourth Quarter Asset Allocation Report
Third Quarter Asset Allocation Report
Looking for Lift
Bouncing Into April
Second Quarter Asset Allocation Report
Ukraine Clouds Already Murky Data
First Quarter Asset Allocation Report
Rising Rate Bond Strategy
The Case for Rising Dividend Stocks
Fourth Quarter Asset Allocation Report
Debt Ceiling: Expect A Deal
Fourth Quarter Asset Allocation Report
Our View on Gold
A Broader View of Markets
Third Quarter Asset Allocation Report
Our View of Interest Rates Post Fed Meeting
Fundamentals Slip in March
Second Quarter Asset Allocation Report
First Quarter Asset Allocation Report
The Election Is Over
Upgrading Outlook
A Higher Tax Rate for Dividends?
Are Fundamentals Bottoming
Global Focus
Slower Growth Ahead
Third Quarter Asset Allocation Report
A Half Full Employment Report
Second Quarter Asset Allocation Report
Greece’s Choice
Getting Better
First Quarter Asset Allocation Report
2012 Outlook
Banks Boost Liquidity As United States Growth Accelerates
Europe: After the Honeymoon
Fourth Quarter Asset Allocation Report
Forbes Interview With Kevin Caron
Bold Action Needed Now
Are Markets Signaling Another Recession?
Stocks See 10% Correction and Bonds Rally on Global Debt Concern
Third Quarter Asset Allocation Report
A Pause in Growth?
The Much Anticipated End Of QE2
Two Key Questions
Improvement in WCA Composite Conditions Index Index Back Above 50 / Downward Trend Broken
The Fed’s Monetary Policy Sequel: Why QE2 May Not Live Up to the Hype
The Bright Side of Purgatory
Investing in a Quasi-Recession
On the Road to Recovery? Or Relapse?
Our Take on Europe’s Troubles
A Cautionary Tale
The Road Ahead
Bernanke’s Prayer
Trough Earnings and the Path Forward How Earnings Recovery May Be Different This Time
Signs of Improvement Broadening Out Portfolios & Raising Equity Exposure
A Big Hit to Wealth and What to Do Now?
A Questionable Plan and a Free Market Silver Lining?
Can Policymakers Create Just a Little Inflation?
Household Credit Turns Negative…
Credit: Can’t Get It… Don’t Want It…
Downgrading Outlook Based on Credit Freeze
Equity Markets Stumble on Lehman, Merrill, & AIG: Implications for Strategy
No Change in Portfolio Strategy Despite Treasury GSE Action
Quick Take on GDP Report
Valuations Are Better, but Markets Are Not Out of the Woods
Investing During Recession
Guarded Posture… For Now…
NBER President Raises Recession Concerns
Equity Risk Heightened Asset Allocation Remains Defensive
After the Rate Cut
The Case for Growth
Data Affirms Tactical Asset Allocation Posture
Cutting Earnings and Equity Target
Quarterly Report
Principles
Dividend Investing
