At Peachtree Investment Partners, we have a long-term relationship with our clients. We work with you to build a customized portfolio that reflects your goals, your financial situation and your approach to risk. Our primary focus has been and remains on preservation of principal.
We use a number of criteria to evaluate companies for client portfolios. We look at a company’s historical performance as well as the potential for future performance. In particular, we consider a company’s profitability and its positioning in the market. We also prefer companies that pay dividends.
We make dividend-paying stocks the centerpiece of our clients’ portfolios. Dividend-paying stocks can add significantly to overall returns and also can help smooth out volatile markets. Although we do invest in some select stocks that do not pay dividends, we focus mainly on those that do.
Spring is always a hopeful time, a season of rebirth. But this spring seems a little more welcome than most. After more than a year of being on the dark side of a worldwide pandemic, it seems the light may be returning. Of course, everyone still needs to exercise caution – we are not out of the woods yet, as recent COVID-19 numbers are showing. But the availability of vaccines is making a return to normal seem possible in the relatively near future.
2020 was a year like no other. There were some bright spots, of course – most notably the very strong performance of the stock market. But for the most part, we seemed to spend much of the year lurching from crisis to crisis, with rising death counts, closing schools, growing unemployment. As we move into 2021, many of us are hoping mostly for a more normal experience.
These are uncertain and exhausting times. We are trying to understand and respond to the health and economic effects of COVID-19, which has killed more than 1 million people worldwide and more than 215,000 Americans while leaving many businesses and employees scrambling to stay afloat. We are concerned about the heated election rhetoric fed by extreme partisanship and divisive politics. Many of us feel worn down and nervous, especially as we face a possible winter resurgence of the virus. Conventional wisdom tells us that the markets do not like uncertainty, and they have been bouncing all over in recent weeks and even months.
