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2023 Fourth Quarter Review & Commentary

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The equity market also noted the Fed’s comments as investors piled back into equities and the S&P 500 finished the year up more than 26%. What’s intriguing about the chart in Figure 2 is how differently equities, as measured by the S&P 500, performed under each period, returning a modest 5.7%

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2023 Third Quarter Review & Commentary

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Equities and the S&P 500 At the onset of each new year, like clockwork, we’re asked for our near-term view. benchmark equity index, the S&P 500. What we didn’t anticipate was the government liquidity cannons firing in response to three bank failures: Signature, Silicon Valley Bank, and First Republic.

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Fixed Income Research: The Overlooked Younger Brother of Equity Research?

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And the credit rating agencies (S&P, Fitch, Moody’s, and Morningstar DBRS in distant 4 th place) specialize in fixed income research. The legal side is quite important because you must read the debt agreements to understand each issuance’s covenants and other terms. bunds (Germany), or Japanese government bonds (JGBs)?

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2023 Second Quarter Review & Commentary

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The stark differences in index performance, specifically the effects of mega-cap technology listings and their disproportionately large weights in the S&P 500, are also worth highlighting. Some of this weightiness can be seen in the performance disparity to date between the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average.

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