By Kelly Moore, Vice President of Estate Planning and Trust Services Being named as Personal Representative can often appear overwhelming, particularly if you are still in the grieving process, and it is best to understand…
Monthly Observations Sharp Downdraft Upends Markets Markets were doused with a bit of seasonal April showers as an uptick in geopolitical drama, surprise to inflation trends, and a sharp change in interest rate expectations weighed…
Tim Side, CFA – Investment StrategistChris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and Research Early this year, January 11th to be exact, we received an email from our Fixed Income team following the…
By Anna McDonald, Director of Family Learning When your child walks across the high school graduation stage, it’s a significant moment in a child’s life, your life as a parent, and the lives of those…
Markets continue to be noisy this week – as they digest market jitters at the end of last week (when the SPX fell by the most in one week – 1.6%, since October, and lost…
Following 2023’s sweeping comeback performance, 2024 wanted a piece of the action. It was a quarter of warm springs and chill winds from the Middle East and Russia/Ukraine. Japan continued to rise, while China continued…
Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Global Market Strategist It brought tears of joy, and highway tailbacks for hours. Monday’s total lunar eclipse was an almost spiritual experience for those lucky enough to be in its path,…
Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and ResearchTim Side, CFA – Investment Strategist Monthly Observations Upward Momentum Continues for Markets A resilient economy continued to support all markets with the labor market…
by Trent Rieger, Associate Investment Analyst All-time highs, brand new spot ETFs, and an upcoming halving has Bitcoin continuing to make headlines, sparking curiosity in those with fear of missing out (“FOMO”). Both speculation and…
Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Global Market Strategist It feels like the end of an era – in many ways. Firstly, we may have seen the end of global central bank convergence. Just as the Bank…
Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Market Strategist Coming off of the usual post-Oscars drama, the real original screenplays kicked off mid-week with inflation numbers and a concern that 2024 is already getting too hot to handle.…
Monthly Observations Records Broken in February Strong economic data and earnings reports were supportive of a risk-on month with the S&P 500 breaking the 5000 level for the first time, surging over 5%. Even non-US…
Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Market Strategist Maybe it is because it is an election year, but we still have China on our minds. Despite the fact that China continues its decline on the global market…
ST. LOUIS — March 6, 2024 — Moneta, a 100% partner-owned Registered Investment Adviser (RIA) firm, announces the addition of Amy Hiett and Mike Walsh as Partners. The team formerly known as Juniper Wealth Advisors…
Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and Research Early 2024 has seen all-time highs in the equity markets seem as frequent as Taylor Swift sightings at Kansas City Chiefs’ football games. Multiple…
Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Market Strategist Better than expected. It has been a bit of a mantra for the year so far – better economic growth, better trend of inflation, a better outlook for jobs…
By Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Market Strategist “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” Lyndon B. Johnson In this election year we probably also have politics, and stump…
Download Recap PDF MONTHLY OBSERVATIONS Mixed Bag of Returns to Start 2024 On the positive side, U.S. economic data continued to point to strength in the underlying growth trajectory. That said, markets expectations for rate…
By Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Investment Strategist While the jobs numbers last week led to euphoria in markets, this week saw a little bit of buyers’ remorse – albeit selective. Earnings are on a positive…
By Anna McDonald, Director of Family Learning Families committed to learning who are intentional about their family purpose and culture are better equipped to stand the test of time. It’s no exaggeration to say this is…
Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and Research Tim Side, CFA – Investment Strategist We are a far cry from 2022’s mid-term elections when investors were hit with four-decade high inflation levels,…
By Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Investment Strategist It has been a week filled with newsflow and our weekly update is coming to you a little later than usual. As we turn the corner into February,…
By Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Investment Strategist Words matter. That part is clear. When the Federal reserve started to sprinkle the word “transitory” into its assessment of inflation from 2022 onwards they sent a clear signal.…