Seven Hills Podcast

Walmart and Costco are two dominant retailers often described as competitors—but in reality are two different businesses targeting their own customer profile with each dominating their niches.  

Created in 1996, 529 plans are the go-to option for college savings. But some recent improvements can aid not just savings for college costs, but primary and secondary school costs, student loan repayment, and a jump start to retirement savings.

With the Presidential campaigns dominating the headlines, we review the first half market performance and discuss the possible investment ramifications from the election-- if any?

Part 2 of our gold versus Bitcoin discussion, and we discuss specific investment vehicles to gain exposure, along with the pros and cons.

The Bitcoin rocket has become the ‘virtual gold’ of the 2000s, but the price of physical gold has quietly increased from just under $400 to over $2300 in the past 20 years. Part one of two episodes to hash this out!

In our second installment of ‘Across the Tape’ we’ll examine two ETFs that might come across as a little boring—but boring is good!

We are almost a third of the way through 2024; let’s take a close look at stock and bond markets, how they’ve performed, and the environment facing investors in the near term.

We’ve heard more about semiconductors in the past five years than ever before—but without these building blocks, there’s no technology, period. A deeper dive into the industry and why the investment opportunity, fueled by AI demand, has a strong tailwind.

AI and semiconductors grab all the headlines—but what about everything else? We take a 10,000 foot view of the industry and where the opportunities are for 2024.

In our first installment of ‘Across the Tape’, we take a close look at Visa Inc. and its close competitor, Mastercard, and discuss their attractiveness and merits to the stock investor.