Insights Library
Research, analysis, and best practices crafted to refine and reinforce the RiskFirst narrative
Research, analysis, and best practices crafted to refine and reinforce the RiskFirst narrative
Commentaries
Q4 2022 | Forced Change, Ignite Progress
Q3 2022 | A Path to Break Tradition
Q2 2022 | The Cost of Inertia
Q1 2022 | Realizing Uncertainty
Q4 2021 | Indeterminate Values
Q3 2021 | Past Accepted, Surprises Expected
Q2 2021 | The Consequences Are Always Unintended
Q1 2021 | Intellectual Honesty – A Valuable Trait
Q4 2020 | A Wrinkle in Space and Time
Q3 2020 | The Best Lines Are Odd Non Sequiturs
Q2 2020 | The Illusion of Price, The Opportunity of Return
Q1 2020 | The Math of Loss & The Art of Calm
Q4 2019 | Why Hindsight Should Not Be Your 2020
Q3 2019 | The Fulcrum of Investing Reality – Return vs. Risk
Q2 2019 | Yesterday’s Headlines Not Necessarily Tomorrow’s Problems
Q1 2019 | Climbing Paradox Mountain
Q4 2018 | Rewarding An Investor For Discipline and Risk Management
Q3 2018 | An Investor’s Internal Trade War
Q2 2018 | Finding the Path of Least Resistance
Q1 2018 | How Risk and Volatility Are Different
Q4 2017 | An Equity Rally Surprising Even to Itself
Q3 2017 | Equity Risk Complacency
Q2 2017 | Act, Think, or Wait
Q1 2017 | Is Imagination Better Than Reality?
Q4 2016 | The Statistician and The Speculator
Q3 2016 | A False Sense of Calm
Q2 2016 | Redwood Commentary
Q1 2016 | Redwood Commentary
Market Snapshots
The Dotcom Redux
Bear Markets of the Past
Treasury Bills at 5%
Pressures of Public Markets
Breaking Out the New Year
Unemployment = Lagging Indicator?
Setbacks Set Up Comebacks?
Second Time Since WWII
How Useful Are Year-End Predictions? (2022 Edition)
A New Risk Era
Many VIX Upticks
Diversification Difficulties
Quality Comeback
Topping the Ten Year
Studying Historical Value
High Yield, Low Default
Pivot Pressures
Indication in International?
Equal-Weight Winning
Price Pressures Ease
The Great Pontification
On Par With ‘08
No Progress
Time to Recovery
P/E Plummet
Correlation Conundrum
Bond Bear Market
Yields Up = Price Down
Technical Turnaround?
Spike vs. Climb
Lagging Indicator?
Flow and Ebb
Inflated Fears
The Anatomy of a Correction
No Quarter
Safe-Haven Shock
Cheapest on Record
Treasury Turnaround?
Munis Appeal Again
The True Cost of Timing
Been Here Before
Three-Sigma Tumble
Dollar Dominates
Credit Correction
40-Year Trend Tested
Muni Meltdown
The Math of Loss