Bringing it Home®
Community Trust and Investment Company…Bringing It Home. It means that we put you first. Your dreams‚ your future. Our client centered approach means that you have a team committed to the same purpose you are. We take time to get to know our clients. Our local presence has multiple benefits for our clients right here at home.
Community Trust and Investment Company is an integral part of Community Trust Bancorp Inc. We are a part of the community‚ so the decisions are made right here. You don’t get an automated line when you have questions. You talk to the person entrusted to take care of you.
Our team of financial professionals focuses on helping our clients attain their financial‚ business and retirement dreams. And with our global network of tools and resources you can rest assured that we will construct a financial plan specific to your unique objectives.
Jason Trennert Speaks
Jason Trennert, Managing Partner and Chief Investment Strategist of Strategas Research Partners, LLC, recently joined Community Trust and Investment Company to discuss the current state of the economy.
Jason spoke about the current state of the economy and where we go next. To see a few of his comments on the markets please click here.
Jason Trennert is the Managing Partner and Chief Investment Strategist of the Firm. He has been ranked consistently by Institutional Investor magazine as one of the top Strategists on Wall Street and has been named to Smart Money magazine's Power 30 list of the most influential people in the world of investing. He has earned a reputation as a keen market observer and for his regular, and often humorous, essays on investing.
Widely quoted in the domestic and foreign press, he is a regular guest host on CNBC's Squawk Box. He is the author of the popular investment book, New Markets, New Strategies, published in 2005 by McGraw Hill.
Prior to founding Strategas, Mr. Trennert was the Chief Investment Strategist and a Senior Managing Director at International Strategy & Investment (ISI) Group where he built and oversaw two of that Firm's most popular research efforts, the Company Surveys and more recently, its Investment Strategy Group. He has an MBA from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and BS in International Economics from Georgetown University.
If you are interested in receiving the entire presentation please email Ryan Gray at grayry@ctbi.com.
Famous Quote
“The investor’s chief problem, and even his worst enemy, is likely to be himself.”
1st Quarter Analysis
From the elevated levels of the stock market at quarter end, the horrific lows of March 2009 seem but a distant memory. In fact the markets act as if the panicked selling never took place as fear has been replaced by greed. With reflection one can even find great amusement in the ever changing psychology of the market, at least those of us who did not cave to selling at lows in abject fear. -read more
Educational Corner:
Free Cash Flow
The concept of free cash flow is a very important criteria for evaluating a business. A business's free cash flow may differ significantly from its net income (or loss). At the core of things, free cash is the money left from revenues after paying all the bills and paying to keep the company's plant in good operating condition. To determine free cash flow, analysts add up all the company's incoming cash and then subtract cash that the company is obligated to pay out, which includes all expenses, debt service, preferred dividends, and capital expenditures. The result tells you how much cash was left over or how short of cash the company was at the end of the fiscal period. We believe ca$h is King, and like companies with lots of free cash flow even in these tough times. The study of free cash flow (or lack of it) has led analysts to uncover problems with Enron, Worldcomm and Healthsouth.