The Flat Month That Wasn't: Blow-Ups, Earnings, and the Fed

In this month's Market Insights Broadcast, Daniel Goeddel, MBA, Partner, and Chris Arends, CFA®, CMT®, CAIA®, Chief Investment Officer, break down a market that ended the month almost exactly where it started — and everything that happened in between. A $35 billion hedge fund collapse, over a million margin calls in Korea, a Fed that is running out of room before the midterms, and an earnings season that quietly broadened out across all eleven sectors. Key Topics Include: What a "typical summer sell-off" actually looks like from the inside How four-times leverage turns a 25% drawdown into a total loss The Fed's path into year-end and why the long end matters more than the short end Treasury buybacks, the 5% threshold, and $40 trillion in national debt Earnings beat rates, sector participation, and S&P 500 concentration Why only a small fraction of large cap managers beat the index The bull and bear case on AI infrastructure spending Circular financing and why AI is showing up inside infrastructure funds