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January 2024 Recap
Download Recap PDF MONTHLY OBSERVATIONS Mixed Bag of Returns to Start 2024 On the positive side, U.S. economic data continued…
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A Thousand Cuts
By Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Investment Strategist While the jobs numbers last week led to euphoria in markets, this week…
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US Presidential Elections on the Horizon: Perspectives for the Investor
Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and Research Tim Side, CFA – Investment Strategist We are a…
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A Week of Pivots, and Green Shoots Persist
By Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Investment Strategist It has been a week filled with newsflow and our weekly update is…
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Transitional
By Aoifinn Devitt, Chief Global Investment Strategist Words matter. That part is clear. When the Federal reserve started to sprinkle the…
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No More Snow Days
By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Global Market Strategist As the Midwest shivers through its first real cold spell of 2024…
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Fourth Quarter: Down and Up We Go
By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer After a bruising 2022, 2023 was the “comeback kid” of a year. But in…
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December 2023 Monthly Recap
Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and Research Tim Side, CFA – Investment Strategist Download the PDF…
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An Assessment of Geopolitics and Changing World Order – Part 3
“The problem isn’t getting rich, it’s staying sane.” -Charlie Munger[1] The current environment is rife with uncertainty. Following two seismic…
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An Assessment of Geopolitics and Changing World Order – Part 2
Tim Side, CFA® – Investment Strategist “From thirty years as a practicing historian, I have come to the conclusion that there is…
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An Assessment of Geopolitics and Changing World Order – Part 1
Tim Side, CFA® – Investment Strategist “Prediction is very difficult, especially if it’s about the future.” -Niels Bohr[1] The current environment is…
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November 2023 Monthly Recap
Investment Team Click here to download the PDF Monthly Observations Santa Claus Rally in November? Markets rebounded with a vengeance…
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After the Harvest; Now where to Reap?
By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer We are into December and have already given “thanks” for the harvest. But this…
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Is the Land of the Rising Sun Rising Again? Narrative on Japan Changing
By Rick Bettger, MBA – Investment Research Analyst You might have to go all the way back to the 1980s…
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Barely There
By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Here in Chicago Thanksgiving was sunny but brisk. Now it is just very brisk. …
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Channeling Goldilocks
By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer As the holidays approach, there is a miracle in the air. But not the…
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October 2023 Monthly Recap
Investment Team Click here to download the PDF Monthly Observations No Calendar Effect This Time October was a challenging month…
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Managing Expectations
By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer October turned out to be a little spooky after all. The month launched somewhat…
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Down But Not Out – In Defense of “Balance” in an Upside-Down World
By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Many of our clients have read this recent article in the Wall Street Journal…
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Market Serves up Tricks and Treats
By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer It’s cooling down outside now, but earnings season is heating up. As expected the…
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Q3 2023 Report – One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer The quarter started with a bang but ended with a whimper, as a surging…
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A Chill Descends
By Aoifinn Devitt, CFP® – Chief Investment Officer Temperatures are dropping, leaves are turning and everywhere there is a chill in the…
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September Monthly Recap
Tim Side, CFA® – Investment Strategist Rick Bettger – Investment Research Analyst Click here to download the PDF Monthly Observations September…
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Barron’s Ranks Moneta Among Nation’s Top RIA Firms for Eighth Consecutive Year
Every year Barron’s published rankings of the nation’s top RIA firms, Moneta made the list. This year was no different.…