Professional Roles: Thornburg Investment Management, Vanguard, Laventhol & Horwath Education: MBA, Drexel University Education: BS, Accounting, Villanova University Certification: Chartered Financial Analyst
“If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you...” Rudyard Kipling Yesterday, I noticed Warren Buffet was in the press quoting this Kipling piece, one of my...
If you’ve ever seen the movie A Beautiful Mind (filmed on campus while I finished my degree in economics!), you’ll remember the pickup scene in the bar. John Nash (played by Russel Crowe) stumbles...
Around age 40, my annual checkup started including additional tests. These tests are meant to keep me healthy, but they also have the ancillary effect of stressing me out while I await the results....
It’s the Friday before Memorial Day, a national holiday honoring all those who died while serving in the U.S. military. It’s also seven days before the United States hits the default wall. The...
I saw this headline on Bloomberg today: "I Put Faith in These Guys: Vanguard Clients Decry Tax Debacle." It got me thinking about the risks embedded in fixed income mutual funds — especially...
Financial markets continue to oscillate, testing investors’ nerves and patience. As professional investors with decades of experience — including investing through bear markets and full interest rate...
Since opening our doors at City Different Investments, it is finally time to say— segments of the fixed income market are starting to get interesting! The fixed income markets have endured a...
by Chris Ryon, CFA, & Sweta Singh – Portfolio Managers
In 2021, investors poured a record amount of cash into the municipal bond market, hoping to seek shelter from tax hikes expected as part of President Biden’s “Build Back Better” social spending and...
Some of our clients are concerned with the stock market's valuation and are searching for lower-risk options for protecting their gains.
The following is an excerpt from a longer article, Rechecking Our Inflation Predictions: Inflation is Here - But for How Long?
On November 3, the Federal Reserve Bank announced it will begin tapering bond purchases later this month – reducing monthly Treasury purchases by $10B and mortgage-backed securities by $5B. While the...
It’s probably time to worry about inflation for real. But as someone who’s run two bond desks (Thornburg and Vanguard) through thick and thin, and currently manages muni and other fixed income SMA...
If you invest in municipal bond mutual funds, some odd quirks about the way mutual funds work could have a big impact on your risk.
Municipal bond investors are spending a lot of time talking about taxes. They worry the Manchin and Sanders wings in Congress will finally reach a compromise on the infrastructure and reconciliation...
Based on historical measures, tax exempt municipal bonds are rich to just about every other fixed income asset class! The three examples below illustrate how tax exempt municipal bond yields compare...
Preparing your Fixed Income Portfolio for Inflation Should investors worry about inflation? We believe so. Does that mean investors should abandon the fixed income markets? No. A balanced portfolio...
