April Private Client Letter - Recession Risks Continue to Rise

April Private Client Letter  - Recession Risks Continue to Rise

The most significant challenge for the U.S. economy has shifted from an uncertain path for monetary policy to a potential banking crisis and associated issues connected with tightening credit conditions. 

The supply of bank credit is an important driver of macroeconomic outcomes and a contraction in credit availability serves to further slow already decelerating economic activity.  Banks will likely raise lending standards in response to the current set of problems and the pace of new loan origination, for businesses and consumers alike, will decline.  

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2023 Retirement Themes

2023 Retirement Themes

Typically, the content in our monthly thought leadership package is reserved for original, in house written material from members of our team. There are, however, moments of exception when we come accross a piece that is just so good that we feel is worthy and worthwhile to include in this client communication. Recently, JPMorgan released their annual Guide to Retirement report. This is a piece, similar to their Guide to Markets, that we find very useful each year. This week I reviewed the 52 page report and have summarized it with their 4 major themes for 2023.

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Is Tech in Trouble?

Is Tech in Trouble?

Last year the technology sector was down roughly 27% due to high inflation and interest rates. Tight monetary policy has significantly limited growth forecasts, and slowed down new startups. While some positive performance has returned to start the year, mass layoffs have instilled additional fear in the eyes of investors. According to TechCrunch there have already been over 150,000 layoffs in the first 3 months of this year and there are no signs of it slowing down. Large and small cap companies alike are experiencing the pain of having to let employees go.

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