Investments
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer It was a blockbuster cinema weekend as “Barbenheimer” swept box offices, leading to the fourth biggest box office weekend in US history. However, as for much of the past…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Download the PDF If the first quarter of the year was a somewhat wild one in terms of market volatility and sentiment swings, the second one ended with an…
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Moneta Investment Team Click here to download the PDF Monthly Observations Strong Month Wraps Up the Quarter Risk markets surged in June, putting banking concerns, recession fears and the debt-ceiling debate behind them. The US…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer As the July 4 holiday nears, there are fireworks by night and smoke by day, at least in our neighborhood in the Midwest. The grayish haze triggers a search…
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Tim Side, CFA, Research Analyst Executive Summary Since 2005, the U.S. has seen productivity growth persistently below long-term historical averages. Using the 1990’s as a proxy, there is potential for generative artificial intelligence to boost…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer On this day, June 21st, the longest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere, it is normal to think about cycles. The cycle from light into dark, the…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer While the US Fed paused for breath in this week’s rate decision, markets were a little more flustered. With a focus alternately on whether Jerome Powell was definitely committing…
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By Aoifinn Devitt CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Now that the debt ceiling storm has passed and pundits have moved on to breathless analysis of the growing Presidential primary field, there’s been time for regulators…
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By Aoifinn Devitt CFP® – Chief Investment Officer It is still tech that is the apple of the stock market’s eye at present as the NASDAQ outperformed the S&P 500 and the Dow for the fourth week…
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Aoifinn Devitt CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Charles O’Rourke, CFA – Fixed Income Analyst Money talks. For centuries, money and capital in general has been used as a lever to effect change, have influence and…
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Chris Kamykowski, CFA®, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and Research Rich McDonald, MBA – Head of Portfolio Management and Fixed Income Back in January, we wrote about the extraordinary measures being undertaken by the…
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To our clients and friends, How and how much parents should help their kids is a concern many of you express to us, especially as it becomes obvious that financial success comes with big parenting…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer It was a week that saw great pomp and fanfare across the Atlantic as the official coronation of King Charles III took place in the UK. On this side of…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer Yesterday was May 1, also known as International Worker’s Day, which was a timely reminder to note the workers that have been shoring up the still-resilient economy and are continuing…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer Although only early April, violent Spring storms have already worked their way across much of the Midwest, disrupting flights and wreaking havoc in small communities. In a similar fashion, the…
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Quarterly Letter “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who has been swimming naked.”– Warren Buffett Every few years a financial crisis arises that brings to mind this famous Warren Buffett quote. The trigger…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer We are often told to listen to the bond market as the “truthsayer” when it comes to the actual state of the US economy and its outlook. This refrain is…
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Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP®, Head of Investment Strategy and Research “That will be 20 bucks.” Ever wondered why people say “20 bucks” in reference to a transaction today? At one point, the “buck” served as…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer Just when it seemed like inflation was firmly receding based on last week’s PCE price index data, oil looked poised to deliver a supply side shock – at least…
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Tim Side, CFA, Research Analyst With the March Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting behind us, the day of reckoning for the Federal Reserve is quickly approaching. In what was the least predictable FOMC meeting…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer The 25 bps rate hike delivered yesterday by Fed Chairman Powell gave us some insight into the no-mans land that lies between a rock and a hard place. This was…
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Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP®, Head of Investment Strategy and Research Mark Webster, CMFC®, Senior Investment Research Analyst Markets are currently experiencing an unexpected flashback to the 2008 Great Financial Crisis (GFC) as a handful of…
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Tim Side – Research Analyst Markets were roiled last week following the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest U.S. bank with more than $200 billion in assets. Depositors went into the weekend with…
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Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer Markets meandered somewhat aimlessly over the past week with the now familiar mix of resilient “hard” economic data and waning consumer sentiment. And it is clear that Chairman Powell is…