The theme this week on the One Minute Retirement Tip podcast is: the mid-year outlook 2021. I’m here with my dad and we’re combining our collective 50+ years of experience managing clients’ money to share some insights about what’s going on in the economic and investment landscape right now. Today we’re talking about the best and the worst of 2021. 

• Best: 
• • Energy 
  • Financials
  • Real Estate  - REITS (again!) - how long can this continue?
  • Small cap value 
• Worst: 
• • Utilities
  • Consumer Staples
  • Consumer discretionary
  • Large cap stocks are underperforming mid and small cap stocks
  • Small cap growth
  • Bonds - most bonds and bond funds are just treading water this year - one of the few areas that has lost money this year along with gold 

Big divergence in stock returns by company. That’s been a big surprise - widening of the haves and the have nots.

That’s it for today. Thanks for listening! My name is Ashley Micciche here with my father, David Wilson, and this is the One Minute Retirement Tip. 

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