Scott Sheppard
June 13, 2022
Tactical Growth Mandate - Weekly Briefing
My 8-year-old kid watches WWE wrestling. It’s mostly my fault and I know it’s not ok – but it’s actually a little funny too. I tell my wife, that instead of focusing on all the bad this has created in our household, why not just focus on the great male bonding this has created between father and son. My argument was almost made good until the kid landed an elbow smash on his mother.
Speaking of suffering the “Smackdown”, the markets didn’t fair too well last week. After the rally into June month-end, the selling has come back to Wall Street and isn’t showing signs of slowing down. The inflation report was nasty last week too and we’ll find out this week how much the US will raise rates yet again.
We came into this past week completely prepared for volatility and we got volatility in a big way. We actually made money this week with the mandate up 0.42% while all major competitors and the markets posted sizable losses. Until investor sentiment becomes much more panicked, I’m going to stay on the sidelines… if you smell what the Rock is cookin’