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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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,…
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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,…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer After a bruising 2022, 2023 was the “comeback kid” of a year. But in the fourth quarter, it seemed to defy gravity itself. All year, the rumblings of a…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer We are into December and have already given “thanks” for the harvest. But this is the busiest time of year for that other kind of harvesting – of tax…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Here in Chicago Thanksgiving was sunny but brisk. Now it is just very brisk. It is a reminder that winter – albeit delayed – comes around after all. The…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer As the holidays approach, there is a miracle in the air. But not the usual festive kind. Consumers were already starting to expect lower inflation – and Tuesday’s CPI…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Many of our clients have read this recent article in the Wall Street Journal and have asked us to respond. It cites the banner performance of the traditional 60/40…
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By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Temperatures are dropping, leaves are turning and everywhere there is a chill in the air. The tragic events playing out on the geopolitical stage, now in the Middle East,…
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When you retire, the typical paycheck from your employer stops coming, but your income needs do not necessarily stop coming. Instead, you may start to rely on your investment portfolio to replace your salary with…
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Lauren Hunt, Senior Advisor Twitter laid off approximately 3,700 employees in early November as part of Elon Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the company. While no one likes to lose a job, many of the…
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By Ryan Martin and Lauren Hunt, Senior Advisors Investors know the drop in stock prices for many companies and funds in 2022 has hurt their portfolios. Even historically stellar investments have tumbled this year. For…
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Lauren Hunt, Senior Advisor With year-end quickly approaching, taxpayers still have several weeks left to plan a strategy that could provide meaningful tax savings. Here are five year-end tax planning ideas that may work for…
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By Ryan Martin & Lauren Hunt, Senior Advisors What is the right percentage of stocks, bonds, and other investments I should have in my investment portfolio? This is one of the most important questions each…
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By Ryan Martin & Lauren Hunt, Senior Advisors The stock market is off to a rocky start in 2022. After rewarding investors with strong growth during the past several years, the Standard & Poor’s 500…
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By Moneta Advisor Lauren Hunt Review your withholdings If you discover that you withheld too much or too little the previous year and you expect your circumstances to be similar for the current year, you…
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By Lauren Hunt, Moneta Advisor With year-end quickly approaching, taxpayers still have a few months left to plan ahead with strategies that could provide meaningful tax savings. Increase your 401(k) contributions For the 2021 tax…
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By Ryan Martin and Lauren Hunt Substantially Equal Periodic Payment Plans… that is a “mouthful” of a strategy, but the details of such planning don’t have to be complicated. Tax-deferred accounts such as IRAs provide…
