Category: Investment Management
Investment Management
October 14, 2016
The Upside of Low Interest Rates

Your savings account may be getting 0.05% interest. And that's a drag. But low interest rates are a boon for certain types of financial transactions...

Investment Management
October 05, 2016
The Boys in the Boat and Investment Management

This past summer, many of us here at LNWM read The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown. This remarkable true story -- about the University of Wa...

Investment Management
August 31, 2016
Central Bankers Can Do Only So Much

In our latest Quarterly Outlook (July 2016), LNWM CIO Gino Perrina wrote: “The marginal impact of central bank monetary policy seems to be diminis...

Investment Management
July 08, 2016
Global Forces and Our Region’s Success

  "A significant portion of personal wealth in the Puget Sound region is concentrated in real estate and equities, often in companies local to...

Investment Management
June 24, 2016
Briefing on Brexit

In our Q2 2016 Quarterly Outlook, we highlighted the potential negative impact on the global economy if the UK elected to no longer be a member of t...

Investment Management
June 07, 2016
Sell in May, Go Away? Not Us

Around this time last year, the S&P 500 was at an all-time high. Back then, we cautioned against loading up on stocks in the hope they’d keep ...

Investment Management
April 25, 2016
LNWM: Largest Wealth Management Firm in Seattle Area

The largest wealth management firm in the Seattle area? It's us: Laird Norton Wealth Management (LNWM), according to the Puget Sound Business Journa...

Investment Management
April 06, 2016
Fiduciary Duty Coming to IRAs, 401(k)s

Ever heard of "fiduciary duty"? Probably not. Basically, it means "acting in the client's best interest." As a Trust Company and a Registered Invest...

Chart of S&P performance January - March 2016
Investment Management
March 22, 2016
S&P 500 Turns Green in Time for Spring

Just in time for spring, which officially started yesterday, the S&P 500 Stock Index (click on chart at left) has recovered fully from what was ...

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