LPL Financial

LPL was founded with a pioneering vision: to help entrepreneurial financial advisors establish successful businesses through which they could offer truly independent financial guidance and advice. Today we provide an integrated platform of proprietary technology, brokerage, and investment advisory services to over 13,500 financial advisors as the nation’s largest independent broker/dealer,* making us a leading distributor of financial products in the United States. In addition, we support over 4,000 financial advisors with clearing services, advisory platform, and technology solutions. Even as our firm has grown over the years, we remain singularly focused on helping financial advisors to manage the complexity of their investment practices so they can better serve their clients in achieving important financial goals. And, because we do not offer proprietary products, LPL enables the independent financial advisors, banks, and credit unions with whom we partner to offer their clients truly objective, conflict-free advice. Our open-architecture platform provides our customers with access to thousands of commission, fee-based, cash, and money market products manufactured by hundreds of third-party product sponsors.

Inflation Fed

Inflation And What The Fed Is Saying

Inflation has been on the rise. Investors are not as interested in what’s happening now as they are in what’s … Read more

Amazon

Amazing Earnings Season –

Below is commentary by Jeff Buchbinder, Equity Strategist for LPL Financial “Amazing Earnings Season” Q1 2021 hedge fund letters, conferences … Read more

Market Myths

Busting Some Common Market Myths

Key Takeaways The underlying fundamentals and technicals suggest this bull market is alive and well. There are many market myths … Read more

Sweet 16 Markets

Will This Sixteen Be Sweet?

Key Takeaways In the spirit of March Madness, we have compiled our “Sweet 16” for the markets. We identified 16 … Read more

Interest Rate Risk

Managing Interest Rate Risk

Key Takeaways Yield curve positioning and proper diversification remain prudent strategies to manage interest rate risk. Small allocations to lower-quality … Read more

Market Correction

Market Correction Perspectives

Key Takeaways A perfect storm of investor worries collided over the past six trading days, resulting in an unprecedented bout … Read more

Valentine's Day Index

The Valentine’s Day Index

Key Takeaways Investors will be closely watching this week’s CPI release and the impact it could have on interest rates … Read more

Stock Correction

Stocks Enter Correction Territory, But Should Investors Worry?

After a turbulent week, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and S&P 500 Index officially slipped into correction territory at yesterday’s … Read more

A Melt-up OR DOWN?

melt-up OR MELT-DOWN? KEY TAKEAWAYS Friday’s sharp stock market decline might have led us to forget that just a … Read more

Super Bowl Indicator

Tom Terrific? Not Really

The Super Bowl indicator suggests that stocks rise for the full year when the Super Bowl winner comes from the … Read more

Bull Markets

Why Midterm Years Can Slip Up Bull Markets – A Look At History

Equities were met with tremendous success during the first year of President Trump’s term, but now we’re headed into the … Read more

Records, Risk, And Returns

How Rare Have Things Been?

Key Takeaways The recent lack of volatility in the U.S. stock market has been historic on many levels. The long … Read more

Fourth Quarter Earnings Season

Fourth Quarter Earnings Season Off To A Good Start

Key Takeaways We expect a solid fourth quarter earnings season and believe a 14–16% year-over-year increase in S&P 500 earnings … Read more

Global Equity Market

Global Equity Market Outlook: Favor U.S. And EM

Key Takeaways 2017 was an excellent year for international equities, particularly EM. We favor the United States and EM equities … Read more

Earnings Season

6 Reasons To Expect A Good Earnings Season

As fourth quarter earnings season kicks into high gear, we’ve put together a list of six reasons why we expect … Read more