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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chris Kamykowski, CFA®, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy & Research Markets are flummoxed with changing expectations for how long the Fed will raise rates and for how long they hold at the eventual terminal…
Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer It was a bruising week last week as the S&P recorded its third negative week in a row and its largest weekly decline in over 10 weeks. The tripwire in…
Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer The US CPI data for January was not exactly a sweet-smelling Valentine’s Day bouquet. Although it showed a seventh consecutive month of lower inflation than the previous month, it still…
Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer As we move to February and the Super Bowl beckons this weekend, a groundswell of positive economic indicators – so called hard data, is starting to edge out the soft…
“Organic growth” may be all the rage at your local supermarket, but the term seems to have lost its luster in the RIA industry. After a year of record volume for RIA mergers and acquisitions,…
Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer As earnings season moves into high gear, the mixed bag of results seems to be leaving markets in a state of some confusion. While earnings have been mixed even within…
Chris Kamykowski, CFA®, CFP® (Head of Investment Strategy and Research) Rich McDonald, MBA (Head of Portfolio Management and Fixed Income) Per the announcement yesterday (1/19), the US Treasury Department is beginning the use of “extraordinary…
Dr. King believed that social inequality was driven by poverty, and he encouraged his audiences to bolster their aspirations with sound economic principles: understanding debt, spending wisely, and not competing with one’s neighbors through excessive…
Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer It is common to start a new year with a sense of hope and anticipation. This year, however, the scars of a bruising equity and bond market are still felt.…
Aoifinn Devitt – Chief Investment Officer Markets received today’s CPI numbers with delight and some relief. The news that US consumer price inflation had risen only 7.1% annually, and only 0.1% month-on-month provided clear evidence of…