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2023 Fourth Quarter Review & Commentary

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This strong push in November and December ended the long stretch of losses that fixed-income investors have endured since 2021. Aggregate Bond Index, our favored barometer for bonds, had its strongest quarterly performance in more than 34 years.

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2023 First Quarter Review & Commentary

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Interestingly, throughout 2021 and 2022, there were no U.S. SVB is the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history and the largest since Washington Mutual collapsed in 2008 — during the Global Financial Crisis — at $307 billion in assets. bank failures. Outside of the U.S.,

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2023 Third Quarter Review & Commentary

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Looking ahead, we believe history will regard the 2007-2021 time period as anomalous. In fact, at our most recent Investment Policy Committee meeting, we decided it was time to declare “Victory!” and abandon that theme as it has now become a consensus view. Several factors are driving this move, including the U.S.

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