Financial markets outlook could be improving

By Mike Switzer

Published February 21, 2023 at 5:30 AM EST

2022 was a bad year for the financial markets, in fact it was one of those rare years when both stocks and bonds experienced negative returns. But our next guest says that this year should be the exact opposite. Mike Switzer interviews Doug English, a certified financial planner and our resident market prognosticator with ACT Advisors in Charleston, SC.

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After almost 20 years, Mike Switzer retired from Wells Fargo Securities in 2001 as Senior Vice President/Investment Officer and Certified Portfolio Manager. In 1999, he and his wife, Maggie, purchased and operated for eight years the Baskin Robbins ice cream store on Forest Drive in Columbia. They grew the store from a bottom-tier operation in the Baskin Robbins franchise system to one in the top 5% nationwide within three years, tripling sales along the way. While operating the ice cream store, Mike and Maggie received patents for a portable ice cream sink and fold-down sneezeguard they invented and in 2002 started Magnolia Carts, an ice cream cart manufacturing company, which they sold in 2013.

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