Click "read more" directly below to find the Q3 (as of 9/30/2016) Summary Reports.

Markets are usually up in election years and the year after election years - the first year in the new President's term.

In fact, low growth countries had slightly higher average returns than high growth countries, although this return difference was not reliably different from zero. In other words, there is no evidence that this return difference occurred by anything other than random chance.

Q2 2016 is in the books. It was a reasonable quarter in the markets. Most asset classes were modestly up and a few were down. There's no evidence of the market volatility in the last week of the quarter, down then up, after the surprise "Brexit" vote results.

Our mantra is to capture what the market has to offer and that means capturing every hundredth of a percent that we can.

I noticed at the end of May, that small stocks were in favor for a number of days almost every day over the large stocks indices of S&P500 and Dow Jones. So just for fun I threw together a chart from Tuesday May 24 through Thursday June 2.