Kevin Hodson
U.S. Long-term Foreign Currency Debt Rating Downgraded to AA+ by Fitch Ratings
AAF Wealth Management would like to make clients aware that Fitch Ratings announced a downgrade to its U.S. long-term foreign currency debt rating from AAA to AA+ over concerns with a growing U.S. budget deficit and an erosion of U.S. governance relative to comparably rated peers throughout the past two decades, which led to repeated […]
AAF Wealth Management Q2 Market Update
This has been an eventful year for U.S. and global economies. As we close the first half of 2023, U.S. consumers have largely witnessed a slowdown on inflation, while the rest of the world continues to wrestle with it. Domestically, though, we are beginning to see the cumulative effects of the past few years’ economic […]
AAF Wealth Management’s Investment Outlook
Secure 2.0 is designed to strengthen the retirement system and Americans’ financial readiness for retirement. However, it’s impossible to ignore our account balances as they swing up and down. AAF Wealth Management helps guide clients through periods of volatility. In this session, recorded April 2023 at AAFCPAs’ Nonprofit Educational Seminar, we provide valuable perspective on […]
AAF Wealth Management Q1 Market Update
1st Quarter 2023: A Record-setting Start Reflecting on the start of 2023, it strikes us as interesting that we’ve just endured yet another volatile period that has seemingly become the norm for markets during the months of February and March. For the past five years, at least late winter through early spring, market turbulence has come […]
Investment Performance – 2022 Recap.
As we look back on 2022, there are things for which we can be grateful, but market performance is certainly not one of them. Investment Performance – 2022 Recap. Around the world, few markets provided positive performance in what turned out to be the worst year for US investors since the Great Financial Crisis of […]
Kevin Hodson Earns Chartered Market Technician (CMT®) Designation
AAF Wealth Management is pleased to announce that Kevin P. Hodson, CMT, AIF®, Wealth Advisor, has earned the Chartered Market Technician (CMT®) credential, a designation for professional technical analysts awarded by the CMT Association. Kevin has been awarded this preeminent, global designation in recognition of his mastery of a core body of knowledge of investment […]
Inflationary Pressures on the Decline
Over the past two weeks, economic data have pointed to what may be a change in the stifling inflationary pressures we’ve become accustomed to over the past 2 years. CONSUMER PRICE INDEX RELEASE LEADS TO OPTIMISM… Last Thursday’s release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) readings from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics (BLS) noted […]
From the Desk of Kevin Hodson
At AAF Wealth Management, we spend most of our energy focused on helping our clients achieve their financial goals. What we often miss these days is sharing insight into the behind-the-scenes activity that makes us who we are – and makes us a great partner for you. Before the pandemic, we were able to connect […]
AAF Wealth Management’s Q3 2022 Market Perspective
A PROLOGUE TO THE STORY… As we sat down to pen this latest quarterly newsletter, we couldn’t help but think of the opening scene of the movie The Big Short (2015). “IT AIN’T WHAT YOU DON’T KNOW THAT GETS YOU INTO TROUBLE. IT’S WHAT YOU KNOW FOR SURE THAT JUST AIN’T SO.” – MARK TWAIN The […]