by Brad McMillan, CFA®, CAIA, MAI, Managing Principal, Chief Investment Officer, Commonwealth Financial Network®
341 posts
Brad McMillan is the chief investment officer at Commonwealth Financial Network, the nation’s largest privately held independent broker/dealer-RIA. He is the primary spokesperson for Commonwealth’s investment divisions. This post originally appeared on The Independent Market Observer, a daily blog authored by Brad McMillan.
2022 Market and Economic Outlook: Finding the Upside
by Brad McMillan, CFA®, CAIA, MAI, Managing Principal, Chief Investment Officer, Commonwealth Financial Network® As we closed out…
December 16, 2021
Are Consumers Losing Confidence?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial One of the key indicators I follow is consumer confidence. With more…
September 2, 2021
Midyear Outlook 2021: The Long and Winding Road Back to Normal
by Brad McMillan, CFA®, CAIA, MAI, Managing Principal, Chief Investment Officer, Commonwealth Financial Network®, Member FINRA/SIPC If we…
June 29, 2021
Pandemic Economic Damage Gets Worse
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network The third wave of the pandemic may be showing signs of…
December 17, 2020
Is the Recent Market Pullback a Good Thing?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network Today, we have another down day in the markets, as the…
October 28, 2020
Is a Hopeful Market a Vulnerable One?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network As of yesterday, the markets spiked again, taking the major indices…
October 13, 2020
Looking Back at the Markets in Q3 and Ahead to Q4 2020
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network September, as expected, was a difficult month, with markets in the…
October 7, 2020
Where Bear? There Bear!
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network My son has a stuffed bear he got when he was…
March 15, 2020
Outlook 2020: How Real Is the Risk of Recession?
by Brad McMillan, CFAÒ, CAIA, MAI, Commonwealth Financial Network As we close out the year, the economy looks…
December 27, 2019
12 Record Highs for the S&P: What Does It All Mean?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network This morning, I saw a commentary piece that pointed out we…
December 3, 2019
Is Another Stock Market Record Reason to Cheer?
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network Yesterday, the market—or at least the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq…
October 31, 2019
The Power of We
by Brad McMillan, CIO, Commonwealth Financial Network WeWork has been one of the trending business topics in recent…
October 23, 2019