John's Podcast
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Current Municipal Impacts
Discussion with Tom Hession, Managing Partner, Riverbend Capital Advisors
The Current Wealth Management Perspective in Municipals-A Conversation with Matt Gastall
My guest, Matt Gastall, Executive Director of Wealth Management at Morgan Stanley explains the crosscurrents in the municipal market and where to find value. He opines that we have endured the pandemic and the market and the credits have emerge...
Causality in Municipals: A discussion with Tom Kozlik of Hilltop Securities, Inc.
In this installment, Tom Kozlik and I have a broad discussion about what is driving the municipal market presently. We concur that credit is the critical factor versus market factors. Tom makes observations on probable outcomes and where invest...
RIVERBEND MUNI CREDIT PODCAST-Observations about recent municipal "observations"
Much rhetoric today would lead one to believe that the march to oblivion in municipals is preordained. Although the credits are stressed, we will see a way out of the dilemma. That does not mean there will not be credit adjustments in the days ...
Municipal Bankruptcy: A conversation with Laura Appleby
Although municipal bankruptcy filings are rare, one may anticipate an increase given the status of local municipal finance since the onset of the pandemic. Laura Appleby who is a partner at the firm of Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath has a fo...