May 26 2026 Reflections: Time to Lighten Up Exposures?

The current economic doldrums have most investors concerned about a potential market downturn. The bottom line concern many economists and consultants have expressed lately is stagflation, the dreaded combination of flat economic growth with inflation that gets higher and higher indefinitely. We may be approaching a time where that concern becomes so widely held that … Read more

Russell 2000 Rebalancing Post-Mortem

The Russell US Indexes are designed to reflect the ever-changing US equity market, and the annual reconstitution process is critical to maintaining accurate representation. The Russell Indexes differ from other major US stock market indexes in a variety of ways.  Russell was also the first index family to use float-adjusted market capitalization, using only shares … Read more