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Jim Cahn

Chair of the Investment Committee and Chief Strategy Officer

jcahn@wealthenhancement.com

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Jim Cahn holds the role of Chair of the Investment Committee & Chief Strategy Officer. Jim has been with Wealth Enhancement Group since 2012 and has been instrumental in the firm’s success as it has evolved from a regional player to establishing a strong national foothold. His contributions to growing the firm’s investment platform and executing its inorganic growth initiatives have helped to shape Wealth Enhancement Group into a leading investment advisory platform.



Prior to joining Wealth Enhancement Group, Jim served as Chief Investment Officer and Portfolio Manager at the Vestian Group, where he oversaw investment programs, launched a hedge fund-of-funds, and consulted with clients.



A frequent contributor to financial media, Jim has appeared in CNBC, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg among other prominent outlets.



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Education

  • BS, Northwestern University, MBA, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

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The Fed is Driving the Markets - For Now

The Second Quarter of 2020 was marked by a glaring contradiction, one of the strongest equity rallies in the last fifty years against likely the greatest decline in GDP in the U.S. (and globally) since the depths of the Great Depression of the 1930s. As we have noted before, economic data and markets don’t necessarily move together; economic data tends to be backward-looking while markets are forward-looking.
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Our Perspective on Market Volatility and Novel Coronavirus

The Tug-of-War Between the Bulls and the Bears Continues Editor's Note: The following section was written on April 30, 2020.
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COVID Stocks and the Three Bears: Historical Perspective on Bear Markets

As we are social distancing, a term that seems destined to be Merriam-Webster’s word of the year, it is easy to get swept up by gloomy economic headlines. It is a natural impulse, akin to rubbernecking on the highway. Just as rubbernecking grinds traffic to a halt, excessive worry causes us to miss the big picture.
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Solving the Equity Home Bias Puzzle

It’s not just insular Americans who do it. Individual investors and investment managers around the world invest in domestic equities out of proportion to the percentage of the total international equity market represented by the equities of their country. It’s called the Equity Home Bias Puzzle, and while it varies dramatically from country to country, it’s true in every country.
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High-Dividend Stocks: Are They Always a Good Thing?

The financial crisis is seemingly behind us, and the markets have hit all-time highs in recent months. You might think this would be a perfect setup for some opportunistic investors to hunt for that next “hot” stock, but some evidence reveals quite the opposite: Investors are generally looking for what they deem to be safer, more reliable investments.
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