FINE POINTS, The Quarterly Trust and Investment Publication of FineMark National Bank & Trust January 2019 | Volume 4 | Issue 1 “Supply creates its own demand.” – Jean-Baptiste Say, French economist After nine consecutive years of gains, the S&P 500 finally experienced a down year in 2018. The performance of the market during the …
2018 Third Quarter Review and Commentary
FINE POINTS, The Quarterly Trust and Investment Publication of FineMark National Bank & Trust October 2018 | Volume 3 | Issue 4 Surging U.S. Equities, Monetary Tightening and Emerging Market Debt Shape the Investment Landscape “The four most dangerous words in investing are: ‘this time it’s different.’” – Sir John Templeton The old Wall Street …
2018 Second Quarter Review and Commentary
FINE POINTS, The Quarterly Trust and Investment Publication of FineMark National Bank & Trust July 2018 | Volume 3 | Issue 3 Now that we’ve reached the mid-point of the year, it’s a good time to look back at the economic forecasts we made at the beginning of the year and revisit how we expect …
2018 First Quarter Review and Commentary
FINE POINTS, The Quarterly Trust and Investment Publication of FineMark National Bank & Trust April 2018 | Volume 3 | Issue 2 Domestic equity markets posted losses during the quarter, which was the first decline we have experienced since Q3 of 2015. We spilled a fair amount of ink in our 2017 newsletters, detailing the …
2017 Fourth Quarter Review and Commentary
FINE POINTS, The Quarterly Trust and Investment Publication of FineMark National Bank & Trust January 2018 | Volume 3 | Issue 1 Nearly across the board, 2017 was an excellent year for investors in all asset classes, particularly equities. It will be a tough act to follow. The 2017 upward move in equities was marked …
2017 Third Quarter Review and Commentary
FINE POINTS, The Quarterly Trust and Investment Publication of FineMark National Bank & Trust October 2017 | Volume 2 | Issue 4 The third quarter cruised along in much of the same fashion as 2017 has to date. Equity markets continued to make new highs in the US with the S&P up +4% in the …
2017 Second Quarter Review and Commentary
FINE POINTS, The Quarterly Trust and Investment Publication of FineMark National Bank & Trust July 2017 | Volume 2 | Issue 3 We stand at the mid-point of the year, shocked that it has gone by so quickly. There have been a number of surprises, but nothing terribly alarming apart from the very low level …
2017 First Quarter Review and Commentary
FINE POINTS, The Quarterly Trust and Investment Publication of FineMark National Bank & Trust April 2017 | Volume 2 | Issue 2 National Markets The first quarter went largely as projected in our January Newsletter however, equities performed stronger than expected. Domestic equities moved up over 9% since the November election, but began to abate …
Fourth Quarter Review and Commentary
FINE POINTS, The Quarterly Trust and Investment Publication of FineMark National Bank & Trust January 2017 | Volume 2 | Issue 1 “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” -Yogi Berra, Hall of Fame Yankee Catcher 2016 was seemingly the year where some of the most unlikely and unusual events came to pass. …
Third Quarter Review and Commentary
FINE POINTS, The Quarterly Trust and Investment Publication of FineMark National Bank & Trust Quarter 3, 2016 | Volume 1 | Issue 3 The third quarter was one of the most quiet, least volatile quarters in twenty years. While summers are typically quieter than the rest of the year, this was certainly more profound. Despite …
