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Title: Still Playing A Little Defense - Adobe PDF (size: 1.2 MB)

Date Posted: 10/01/2011

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Concerns about Europe are weighing in on investor confidence. Is another recession looming, or is it time to buy equities?


Title: Solid Market Fundamentals … Crucial Inflection Points - Adobe PDF (size: 532.5 KB)

Date Posted: 07/01/2011

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Corporate earnings are strong, balance sheets are in good shape, and the interest rate environment is likely to remain supportive, but debt and deficit problems here and abroad have investors spooked.


Title: Trouble Everywhere … amid Rising Markets? - Adobe PDF (size: 648.0 KB)

Date Posted: 04/01/2011

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Why would equity prices be advancing amid the unrest in the Middle East and the twin disasters in Japan? And, what about the major defaults that were predicted by for the municipal bond market by Meredith Whitney on 60 Minutes in December of 2010?


Title: Understanding the Characteristics of Your Portfolio - Adobe PDF (size: 826.6 KB)

Date Posted: 01/01/2011

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Traditional brokerage statements provide misleading pie charts and asset allocation percentages. Therefore, we use software that sees deep into the portfolios we manage and we sometimes share that analysis with our clients.


Title: Macroeconomic Quicktakes - Adobe PDF (size: 460.1 KB)

Date Posted: 04/01/2010

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Economic recovery is well upon us, but federal debt levels are worrisome, the housing market is still fragile, and the commercial real estate market has deteriorated markedly.


Title: Macroeconomic Quicktakes - Adobe PDF (size: 267.8 KB)

Date Posted: 01/01/2010

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Don’t fight the Fed! Put Fed policy at your back. Looking for opportunity? Follow the cash…


Title: Recession may be over … may not matter - Adobe PDF (size: 309.0 KB)

Date Posted: 09/29/2009


Title: Inflation Around Corner? - Adobe PDF (size: 123.4 KB)

Date Posted: 06/30/2009

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Maybe not…


Title: Macroeconomic Quickpoints - Adobe PDF (size: 160.2 KB)

Date Posted: 04/17/2009


Title: Near Death Experience - Adobe PDF (size: 100.0 KB)

Date Posted: 04/06/2009