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Here is KPP Financial Portfolio Manager, Luke Guerrero.

Good afternoon, fellow investors, and welcome back to InvestTalk.

I'm Lou Guerrero, on today's Thursday, May 1st, 2025.

Now, as we work through the dynamics of a changing landscape, the stock market may not move in a straight line and it's something

we certainly saw in April. With all the news, with all the changes, with all the uncertainty,

through it all, we ended about one to one and a half percent lower from an index perspective

than we started the month.

But that doesn't mean that we are out of the woods because these fresh challenges,

the things that have been driving that uncertainty, are still very much here.

And so the objective for this podcast and radio program and YouTube series is to help you understand and

digest these changes to hopefully make you a better and more informed investor.

Now, before we move forward with our regularly scheduled programming, I wanted to briefly

mention that yesterday, Justin and I hosted a wealth webinar. We

covered a lot of topics. We went over a market update, did a bunch of Q&A at the end of it,

but also talked about how we at KPP are launching a new offering through our custom indexing

program. Now we have many strategies for in particular that are already pre-canned

ready to go, but it really is about customization. So whatever you are looking for, we can

work with you. All right, back to the mission at hand. As always, we have a mixture of

educational items and actionable material to go over today,

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