Scott Sheppard
April 25, 2022
Tactical Growth Mandate - Weekly Briefing
It’s been a twisting market, but, typically the bears don’t leave any berries untouched. That was certainly the case this past week where just about everything was crushed - stocks, bonds, gold, commodities, cryptocurrency, not to mention investor egos. I often get questioned by clients as to why I will sometimes leave money sitting in cash – perceived as not having the money working. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t love it either, but the answer is simply that sometimes cash is the best place to be.
This past week, sitting in cash, and not losing put you at the head of the class. As you know, aside from a couple short term stints of being fully invested to catch short term rallies, we have maintained a very cautious approach in our trading since the start of 2022. This environment is just too delicate a situation to get aggressive from an active trader’s point of view. As governments aggressively turn off their stimulus measures to halt inflation at a time that happens to coincide with record debt levels, a global pandemic, a Chinese lockdown, and a major geopolitical event, one should expect further weakness going into the summer months.
I’ll have one eye on the charts this week and the other on the clear blue waters of the Caribbean. There’s something to be said for this new Work-From-Anywhere world we now live in. Stay patient, stay confident, stay safe.