by McDermott + Bull | Jan 15, 2020 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Cautious optimism seems to be the consensus among our firm’s clients heading into 2020. Although some pundits are predicting a dramatic and near-term market correction, supporting data is decidedly mixed. Changes in expectations...
by McDermott + Bull | Oct 12, 2019 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Diversity & Inclusion (also known as D&I; or Inclusion & Diversity) have been buzzwords within corporate circles for years. No longer are these simply catch phrases, but instead are now business imperatives. Put...
by McDermott + Bull | Jan 8, 2019 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE In preparing this State of the Market for 2019, I revisited my 2017 and 2018 editions. I found that in each I used the word “optimism” in my first sentence to describe our sentiments towards the market. Our optimism remains, but...
by McDermott + Bull | Dec 10, 2018 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Preface – As we shared in the preface to part I of this two-part article, we are distilling the executive interview process. We have prepared this article in two parts in order to compartmentalize the different components of the...
by McDermott + Bull | Sep 19, 2018 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL ARTICLE Preface – Allow me to provide a quick preface to this article. Over the course of our next few quarterly distributions, we will be distilling the executive interview process. Due to the many variables within any given executive...
by McDermott + Bull | Jun 27, 2018 | Brandon Biegenzahn, Financial Services Articles
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE FULL REPORT Long-Term Capital Management, a hedge fund management firm, famous for its quantitative trading approach and its belief, supposedly borne out by its risk models that said it was taking minimal risk, collapsed in the late 1990s....
