http://salsa.bbh.com/news/ en-us maggie.perrier@bbh.com Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:09:37 -0500 http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003430.php?insurance=1 IN THIS ISSUE: A Letter to Our Readers Partner and Head of Wealth Management, Charlie Izard, addresses our readers with a discussion of the highlights of the Wealth Management business in 2011. Markets ...Chief Investment Strategist, Scott Clemons, reviews what... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003429.php?insurance=1 Perspectives in a Complex World The following address was delivered on December 1st, 2011 at the annual BBH Banking holiday dinner. It's been said that all of us in the investment business share a common gene mutation. We all... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003424.php?insurance=1 It remains our belief that the Eurozone will make halting headway towards greater fiscal integration, and that the ECB will eventually engage in a European version of quantitative easing, but the reality is that markets move more quickly than public... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003423.php?insurance=1 You can save estate taxes by making lifetime gifts that utilize your gift tax exclusion. Tax and Nontax BenefitsAvoids gift tax, not only on the value of the gift but on all its future appreciation. Reduces estate tax by reducing... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003422.php?insurance=1 Don't Complain, Capitalize The financial news these days is replete with pundits bemoaning the difficulty in investing because correlations of financial assets are so high. The argument is a relatively basic one: if everything is moving together, how can... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003428.php?insurance=1 Press Release... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003421.php?insurance=1 Perception and Reality In the Municipal Bond Market Municipal bonds have long played the role of anchor tenant in the portfolios of taxable investors: they offer predictable and consistent tax-advantaged income, price stability that tempers the volatility of other securities... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003419.php?insurance=1 U.S. Banking Three Years After Lehman We have recently written about ongoing adjustments in the U.S. economy in the two sectors that were largely responsible for the 2008-09 downturn and financial crisis – imbalances in the banking sector and... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003418.php?insurance=1 Investors who are underweight their target allocations in equity should take advantage of market weakness to revisit and rebalance their weightings. We furthermore believe that the sharp rise in risk aversion since early August offers the opportunity to invest in... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003427.php?insurance=1 Press Release... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003426.php?insurance=1 Press Release... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003416.php?insurance=1 IN THIS ISSUE: Markets . . . Chief Investment Strategist Scott Clemons' discussion of the economy and markets in this edition focuses on recent market volatility and whether it is warranted. Feature ... Core Select Equity Analyst Neel Panchal discusses... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003415.php?insurance=1 Attached please find our Fixed Income Quarterly market review. Please click here to open document in PDF format.... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003410.php?insurance=1 It's Not All Gloomy This commentary will not, mercifully, detail the list of woes weighing on the U.S. economy. Uncertainty is understandably high, but investors have extrapolated much of today's gloom far into the future. How do we know?... http://salsa.bbh.com/news/archives/003407.php?insurance=1 Vanishing Yields "On the short end of the market, the two-year note also hit a new low of 0.177%, a dip of 3.3 basis points on the week." Barrons – September 12, 2011 It used to be the case...