Resources
Insights, research and news to keep you updated and informed on Madison's strategies and process.
Commentary
Fixed & Commodity Market Performance | 4Q 2019
Our quarterly chart pack summarizing the fixed income and commodity markets.
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Equity Market Performance | 4Q 2019
Our quarterly chart pack summarizing the equity markets.
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Small Cap Acquisition
Madison Investments has acquired the Small Cap Equity Team and assets of former Broadview Advisors, LLC. “In addition to being a great cultural fit, the acquisition deepens our investment talent and broadens our investment offerings” said Rich Eisinger, Madison’s Head of Equities, who oversees the Madison U.S. Equity Team that the Small Cap Equity managers are joining.
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Madison Scottsdale Honored with 2019 US Captive Award
Scottsdale, Arizona - 2019.08.05 – Madison Scottsdale, the insurance asset management division of Madison Investment Advisors, for the second-year running has been selected as the captive insurance industry’s Investment Specialist of the Year for its record of risk-balanced investment services to the captive insurance industry.
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White Papers
Managing Bond Risks in a Rising Interest Rate Environment
Since their low in mid-2016, longer-term interest rates have more than doubled. While that may sound ominous, admittedly the increase has been from a very low level -- ten-year Treasury yields, for example, have risen from below 1.50% to above 3.00%. Yet low interest rates mean higher risk, as the mathematics of bonds include both coupon (interest) income and price change. When coupon income is quite low, as has prevailed for the last several years, there is little to cushion periodic price gyrations.
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Active Management | Gaining a Leg up
The growing popularity of equity index funds and equity index exchange traded funds (ETFs), combined with several academic studies of the costs and benefits of active management versus indexing, have raised questions in the minds of many advisors and investors about the benefits of active equity management. We believe these studies have given “active managers” a bad rap by grouping all active managers into a broad, single universe and not differentiating between those managers who are truly active, and add value, and those managers that call themselves active but offer little opportunity for outperformance, net of fees, based on their true investment style.
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The Captive Review awards were independently determined and awarded by one of Captive’s Captive Owner Panels. Madison Scottsdale did not pay a fee in exchange for these awards. The Investment Management Award is open to asset managers and investment advisors and is presented to the firm that best exhibits unrivaled customer care and innovation.
The Captive Review awards were independently determined and awarded by one of Captive’s Captive Owner Panels. Madison Scottsdale did not pay a fee in exchange for these awards. The Investment Management Award is open to asset managers and investment advisors and is presented to the firm that best exhibits unrivaled customer care and innovation.