Dave Hansen

Wealth management firm Yellowstone Partners places a high priority on its commitment to clients. The company offers direct access to investment teams, fiduciary responsibility, and fair-fee arrangements. Dedicated to the ideal of fiduciary responsibility, Yellowstone Partners never sells products, instead maintaining a focus on providing investment advice. Unlike other brokers who may make self-serving decisions, Yellowstone Partners' professionals make recommendations solely on behalf of their clients' best interests. Also differentiating Yellowstone Partners from other brokers is direct access to the investment team; the firm's investment strategy is cultivated in-house rather than outsourced to other firms.

The Yellowstone Partners process considers corporate earnings as the main factor in determining market movements, but also recognizes the shift from these earnings to federal interest rates, economic news, and government stimulus programs. Though the firm continues to invest its trust in corporate earnings as the foundation of its process, it also takes into account these new components to provide clients with a thorough analysis. In order to achieve stability, Yellowstone Partners measures the level of confidence between banks by analyzing the spread between the rates banks charge to each other; this is known as the TED Spread. Yellowstone Partners also warns its clients against taking free advice from sources without first validating their reputation.

For clients, Yellowstone Partners offers an economic outlook archive, in which its staff provides analysis of current trends. Most recently, the company gave insight as to why the market is favoring small-cap growth, and how the recession is hitting the top one percent of earners in California harder than anyone else. To get in touch with Yellowstone Partners and find out more about investment opportunities, call 800-252-3693 or visit one of its six branch locations in Idaho, Utah, New York, Wyoming, or Washington.