We as investors face a complex investment environment as we seek to preserve and grow our capital. We maintained our commitment to long-term investing and it proved especially prescient as for nearly all of our strategies we have not only recovered all of our capital, but have created some meaningful gains for the year after navigating a shutdown of our economy with domestic GDP falling a stunning 31% in the second quarter.

The first quarter commenced with reasonably good results for the domestic markets (following an excellent year in 2019) when “out of the blue” can the coronavirus leading to a global pandemic which has had profound medical and economic implications globally. Continue reading.

Reality interfered with our plans when “out of the blue,” a vicious virus emanated out of Wuhan, China in December 2019.