Weekly Market Recap – August 31, 2020
Weekly Market Recap – August 24, 2020
Azzad Portfolios Achieve ‘Top Guns’ Status from Informa Investment Solutions
Six strategies excel across multiple categories and reporting periods Falls Church, Va., 8/20/20 – Azzad Asset Management today announced that it has been awarded a PSN Top Guns distinction by Informa Financial Intelligence’s PSN manager database, North America’s longest running database of investment managers. This quarterly ranking is used widely by asset managers and investors. “Congratulations […]
Why you need a financial advisor in times like these
Conventional wisdom says investors should hang tough and ride out market declines. But a big plunge always drives plenty of people to the sidelines. That happened in March, when investors pulled a net $326 billion from mutual funds and other pooled investments, according to data provider Morningstar. Much of that money is still on the […]
Bear Markets and Recoveries
Equity markets have experienced an extraordinary rebound since their drop in March. Yet economic data continues to lag. So the question investors are asking is: Have markets gone too far? The material, views and opinions expressed in this presentation are solely those of the presenter and may not be reflective of those held by Azzad […]
Weekly Market Recap – August 17, 2020
Market Recap: Second Quarter 2020
The second quarter of 2020 posted the best quarterly performance for stocks since 1998, with major benchmark indexes making sizeable gains over their historically poor first-quarter tallies. Much of the second-quarter growth in the stock market and economy was a bounce back from a dismal March and April when pandemic-related lockdowns and restrictions virtually shut […]
Financial Advisor Magazine names Azzad in 2020 RIA Survey and Ranking
FALLS CHURCH, Virginia (August 18, 2020) – Azzad Asset Management has been named in Financial Advisor magazine’s 2020 RIA Ranking. The report is an annual survey that ranks registered investment advisors (RIAs) based on percentage growth in assets from the previous calendar year and is the premier industry ranking of independent RIA growth. FA’s RIA Ranking is […]
Fab five stocks are driving this market
Did you know that the five largest stocks in the S&P 500 now account for 22 percent of the index’s market capitalization? That’s the latest report at last check, according to Goldman Sachs. The soaring share prices of Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft — which all set new highs in recent weeks — has […]
Azzad remembers the victims of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
This month, the world commemorates the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings of the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. As we see in the headlines, nuclear weapons still pose a grave threat to humanity. The world’s nine nuclear-armed nations are modernizing their arsenals, key arms control agreements are being abandoned, and nuclear know-how is pursued […]
