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AAM Viewpoints: The Investing Map Has Undergone a Regime Change | A Pivot to Emerging Markets Appears Prudent
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Over the past two years the markets have undergone a seminal change.
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AAM Viewpoints: Dividends Increasingly Important During Increasing Rates
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At less than two months into 2022, the market has reached levels of volatility not seen in over a year.
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AAM Viewpoints: Jobs and CPI: Fuel for the Fed to Start Their Engines
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The January jobs report — headlined by the Change in Nonfarm Payrolls number of 467,000, which was significantly higher than expectations (125,000) — was nothing short of spectacular.
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AAM Viewpoints: Recent Volatility and the Flattening Yield Curve
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In conversations beginning as early as last June, we periodically described selected Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings as “the most important meeting in recent memory.”
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AAM Viewpoints: Investing During a Tightening Cycle
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In about two months the Federal Reserve is expected to issue its first interest rate hike in three years, and presumably begin a new tightening cycle.
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AAM Viewpoints: 2021 Fixed Income Review
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2021 was a challenging year as news of fast-spreading COVID-19 variants added stress and volatility to the financial markets.
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AAM Viewpoints: To Issue or Not to Issue? That is Every Municipality’s Question
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Last year the municipal (muni) market sold a total of $475.3 billion of debt, second to the record of $484.6 billion that was attained the previous year.
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AAM Viewpoints: The Big Quit, Great Inflate, and the Viral Spiral: A Deadly Credit Cocktail or Mere Speedbumps?
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Corporate credit quality has strengthened at a near unprecedented pace in 2021.
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AAM Viewpoints: 2022: Will it be Deja vu, a Re-do or Something New?
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As we embark on the final two weeks of a challenging and unpredictable year, it seems the next year will resemble its predecessor, but with some unique and important differences.
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AAM Viewpoints: Last call for fed punchbowl; Warnings for a bumpy 2022
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Last December my Viewpoints article was titled, “Let’s Party Like Its 1999!” In that article we looked forward to 2021 as a year when the euphoria was similar to 1999.
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AAM Viewpoints: Omicron who? Municipals unfazed by new covid variant
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After a relatively benign 4th quarter, characterized by a risk-on mentality, market uncertainty ramped up heading into year end on the heels of the recently identified omicron Covid variant closely followed by a hawkish inflation pivot by the Federal Reserve.
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AAM Viewpoints: Goldilocks and the “3 bulls economy”
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This past week witnessed a continuation of solid economic figures supporting the notion that the 3rd quarter slowdown scare is fading further into the rearview mirror.