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Geopolitics Update: Monitoring the Recent Escalation in the Middle East
Last week, Israel launched a direct attack on Iran, targeting key military assets including senior leadership, defense systems, and nuclear…
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Monthly Recap – May 2025
May Observations Strong Earnings Support Market Rally Global equity markets rallied over the month as continued relief from trade tensions,…
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“Down Goes Frazier”: Moody’s Downgrade of US Sovereign Debt
Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and Research Howard Cosell’s immortal words during the January 1973 heavyweight…
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Monthly Recap – April 2025
Monthly Observations Market “Liberates” Itself from Sharp Early Drawdown Investors faced enormous volatility early in the month as President’s Trump’s…
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Tariff Disruptions Bring Q1 Volatility, Q2 Opportunities
First quarter 2025 showed us a lot of volatility around trade policy and other changes made by the incoming Trump…
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History Rhymes: A Review of Presidential Policy “Missteps”
Tim Side, CFA – Investment StrategistChris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and Research It is a sort…
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Q1 Market Volatility: 4 Investment Strategy Questions to Ask Your Financial Advisor
Market volatility, as we’ve had in the beginning of 2025 and into Q2, is often cause for discomfort. While certain…
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First Quarter Investment Report – 2025
Introduction When “decades happen in weeks”, even the past quarter’s events can seem like old news already. While this is…
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Monthly Recap – March 2025
MONTHLY OBSERVATIONS Diversification Benefits Shine During Another Tough Month for US Equities Policy uncertainty and recession risks were the key…
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Liberation Day
Tim Side, CFA – Investment Strategist “THERE ARE DECADES WHERE NOTHING HAPPENS; AND THERE ARE WEEKS WHERE DECADES HAPPEN.” V.I.…
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Lessons from Los Angeles: Update Property Insurance Values
Throughout Q1, we have been reviewing and sharing ways to support those impacted by the fires in Los Angeles, CA (see below),…
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March Madness: Sentiment vs Hard Data
Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and ResearchTim Side, CFA – Investment Strategist Many college basketball fans…
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Monthly Recap – February 2025
MONTHLY OBSERVATIONS Diversification Mitigates Tough Month for US Equities A reversal in the momentum trade sent US stocks mostly lower…
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The Trump 2.0 Trade: Over Before it Started?
Chris Kamykowski, CFA, CFP® – Head of Investment Strategy and ResearchTim Side, CFA – Investment Strategist The exuberant sentiment from…
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Monthly Recap – January 2025
Monthly Observations “January Effect” Starts 2025 on Solid Foot Markets started the month on the weaker side as strong payrolls…
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Move Fast and Break Things
Andrew Kelsen – Chief Investment OfficerTim Side, CFA – Investment Strategist January represented a solid month for public markets in…
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Early Thoughts: What to Make of DeepSeek’s Disruption
by Andrew Kelsen, Chief Investment Officer Monday, January 27th, 2025…..a day that may prove to be a very consequential day…
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Admiral James Stavridis: Thoughts on Geopolitics and Leadership
Recently, Moneta was fortunate to host The Carlyle Group’s, Admiral James Stavridis, for a chat with our Chief Investment Officer,…
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Fourth Quarter Investment Report
The year 2024 is now quickly in the rearview mirror as 2025 has already brought its fair share of events,…
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Monthly Recap – December 2024
Monthly Observations Unseasonal End to a Solid Year The Trump 2.0 trade and growing expectations for a US “soft-landing” drove…
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Monthly Recap – November 2024
Monthly Observations Election Certainty Provides Catalyst for US Market Surge The month began with a resounding victory for former President…
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T is for Tariffs
That pesky thing known as the Federal Reserve dashed some cold water on the Trump rally last week, as Fed…
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One Week Later…
Tim Side, CFA – Investment Strategist Déjà vu? One week out from the election results and there is an oddly…
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Monthly Recap – October 2024
Monthly Observations Final Quarter Starts on a Weak Footing Third quarter upward momentum in risk markets carried through for most…