Look for the stock market 'W'

By Mike Switzer

Published May 13, 2025 at 6:30 AM EDT

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ACT Advisors

Doug English, certified financial planner with ACT Advisors in Charleston, S.C.

The financial markets have certainly not been boring so far in 2025. But we are nearing the midpoint of the year, so we thought it might be a good time to check in with one of our resident market prognosticators. Mike Switzer interviews Doug English, a certified financial planner with ACT Advisors in Charleston, S.C.

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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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