RESEARCH & THOUGHT PIECES FROM OUR TEAM

Watch Managed Asset Portfolio’s monthly roundtable with our Investment Team discussing the latest market news and trends. Topics include the AI market rally, companies incorporating AI, and the difficult decisions facing the Fed. This is an excellent opportunity to hear from our team and...

Until the release of ChatGPT (Generative Pre-trained Transformer) in late 2022, artificial intelligence (AI) developments largely flew under the radar. Although AI has existed in some form since the 1950s, it was perhaps more prominently featured in science fiction than in the everyday lives of...

Watch Managed Asset Portfolio’s monthly roundtable with our Investment Team discussing the latest market news and trends. Topics include: the recent banking turmoil, quarterly earnings, artificial intelligence, and the upcoming debt limit. This is a great opportunity to hear from our team...

Who's On First?

When the quarter began, all eyes were on the Federal Reserve (the Fed). The question on everyone's mind was how high is the Fed willing to push rates to drive inflation back to their stated two percent target? The Fed had already slowed its cadence from 75 basis points in November...

Watch as MAP's President & Chief Investment Officer, Michael Dzialo, answers questions about the risks and opportunities in the current market, following the recent banking turmoil.

Reverberations of the 2008-2009 Great Financial Crisis (GFC) were felt throughout the stock and bond markets as news of SIVB’s demise dominated headlines. In less than 48 hours, Silicon Valley’s largest bank, which was trading over $300 per share just last month, collapsed on Friday...

Executive Summary

• Growth has outperformed value in eleven of the past fourteen years, but value has outperformed for the past two years (in 2022, value outperformed growth by 22.69%).^1,2
• Value and growth cycles are not short-term in nature; they typically last for years.
• When inflation and...

After being pressured during the first three quarters of the year, stocks moved higher during the fourth quarter, marking their first quarterly gain in 2022. However, for the year, stocks posted their worst performance since the Great Financial Crisis (GFC), as investors responded negatively to...

Watch this brief webinar hosted by MAP’s President and Chief Investment Officer, Michael Dzialo, and International Portfolio Manager, Peter Swan, as we discuss the rise of the U.S. dollar.

Tax-Loss Harvesting

Investors may be hard-pressed to find positive-performing investments in their portfolios in 2022, a year that has seen the worst equity performance since the Global Financial Crisis, and the most severe bond market decline in almost half a century. While no one enjoys seeing...

The Inflation Monster Rears Its Ugly Head

Stubbornly high inflation has forced the Federal Reserve (the Fed) to become aggressive on the interest rate front, raising rates five times in 2022. These higher interest rates created a hostile environment for most asset classes. Stocks, bonds, most...

Watch a recording of our latest Webinar hosted by MAP’s President & Chief Investment Officer, Michael Dzialo and MAP's Senior Portfolio Manager, Karen Culver, where we share our thoughts and insights on the markets and the economy.