by msanders17 | Jan 18, 2023 | Commentaries
2023: INCOME IS BACK- One (maybe the only?) Positive From the Pain of 2022 Fixed Income investors finally had the year many were predicting over the last decade, ending eight consecutive years of positive total returns for the broad municipal bond market. Much like...
by Carrie Wanous | Nov 19, 2021 | Commentaries
Similar to the majority of the benchmarks we track 3Q21 Performance for Infrastructure PLUS was negative with a total return of -2.6%. The most comparable index, the DJ Brookfield Infrastructure Composite (DJBIA1DOW) also delivered a return of -2.6%. The S&P 500...
by Carrie Wanous | Nov 19, 2021 | Commentaries
Market Overview At the end of the second quarter over 54% of Americans had received at least one dose of the vaccine, although the pace of vaccinations slowed substantially. New cases and deaths fell to levels last seen in the early days of the Pandemic, but the U.S....
by Carrie Wanous | May 28, 2021 | Commentaries
For the first quarter of 2021 Infrastructure PLUS was up 1.4%, lagging our infrastructure benchmark (Dow Jones Brookfield US Infra Index) which was up 8.7% as well as the S&P 500 which was up 6.2%. Infrastructure PLUS’s strong 2020 performance benefited from the...
by msanders17 | Apr 26, 2021 | Commentaries
Market Overview Stimulus and vaccine optimism ran high during the first quarter with all eyes on the reopening of the economy and a return to some sort of normalcy in the not so distant future. The third wave of a spike in COVID cases and deaths as a result of the...
by msanders17 | Feb 9, 2021 | Commentaries
Before we delve into Infrastructure PLUS’s 2020 performance, we would like to take a moment to thank all our early investors. Our strategy was developed and launched in the second quarter of 2020 which, given the outbreak of COVID-19, was a period of extreme...