Northfield, IL 1Q 2023 — Bernardi Asset Management’s (BAM) High Income (Five Star category) and Intermediate Taxable (One Star category) strategies achieved “Top Guns” status within Zephyr’s PSN manager database. PSN Top Guns performance rankings are tabulated for thousands of strategies across 75 peer groups subdivided by increasingly rigorous screens and reported in ascending classes from […]
Moody’s “Corporate Default Rate to Breach Historical Levels” Three of four of the largest U.S. bank failures have occurred in the past two months Capital One: “Credit Card Delinquencies Test Multi-Year Highs as Job Market Faces ‘Material’ Worsening. Powell: Monetary Policy Trying to Reach and Stay at Sufficiently Restrictive Stance to Bring Inflation Down –WSJ […]
Northfield, IL February 2023 — Bernardi Asset Management’s (BAM) Tactical Ladder and High Income strategies were awarded Manager of the Decade status within the Municipals’ and Intermediate Maturity fixed income universes. The PSN Top Guns Manager of the Decade list includes the top ten performers for the latest 10-year period. These municipal strategies were also […]
The Fed on Wednesday raised its target range for the Fed Funds Rate by 50 basis points (0.50%) to 4.25%-4.50%. The Fed Funds Rate (FFR) most directly impacts short term treasury rates, while bonds 5-years and beyond are primarily priced based on market forces and the expectations for future growth, inflation, and resulting Fed policy. […]
The market rout of 2022 has left few asset classes unscathed. The S&P 500 is down 22.51% through 9/23. While bonds have not been immune given the Fed’s 180 degree policy turn from late 2021 and persistent inflationary pressures. The 2-year treasury’s steep rise is a sharp representation of how quickly the Fed transformed from […]
The first half of 2022 is one of the few market environments in recent history where all major asset classes suffered. The Novel Investor blog’s Asset Class Returns captures this nicely noting “cash” outperformed with a +0.2% return. “HG Bonds” (high-grade bonds) came in an uninspiring second place at negative 10.4%, while the S&P 500 […]
Jerome Powell and his Federal Reserve colleagues have begun taking steps to put the income back in fixed income assets, leading to one of the worst bond market drawdowns in the past forty years. Rates have spiked as the Fed has made a rapid about-face in its monetary policy approach. Concurrently, municipal yields are up […]
Jerome Powell and his Federal Reserve colleagues have begun taking steps to put the income back in fixed income assets, leading to one of the worst bond market drawdowns in the past forty years. Rates have spiked as the Fed has made a rapid about-face in its monetary policy approach, as it aims to quell […]
2022 is off to a volatile start in global financial markets as the Fed begins the process of tightening monetary policy. Yields have risen – especially at the front end of the yield curve, thereby flattening the curve. Today the average AA rated 2-year and 10-year municipal bond yields 0.97% (1.53% TEY) and 1.66% (2.63% […]
Northfield, IL November 2021 — Bernardi Asset Management (BAM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Bernardi Securities, Inc. (BSI) has been awarded a PSN Top Guns distinction by Informa Financial Intelligence’s PSN manager database, North America’s longest running database of investment managers. This award was for BAM’s Intermediate-Term Taxable strategy. This is the second Top Gun […]