Perspectives

What's New - Perspectives - January 30, 2023

What’s New | January 30, 2023

COVID and its economic dislocations, government policy responses, and their after-effects continue to materially alter the global landscape. While Lyell Wealth Management sees some pre-existing investment themes as enduring, such …

2022 Snapshots

2022 Snapshots | September 16, 2022

Lyell Wealth Management invests substantial resources in proprietary research in order to distinguish real economic and market data from the narratives pushed by the sensationalist financial media. We periodically publish …

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Panic at the Fed? | June 24, 2022

We are now eight months into the Federal Reserve’s most aggressive financial tightening campaign in decades. While the first policy hikes took place in March 2022, financial markets have been …

Living With Covid | September 20, 2021

The global economy and markets navigated a rocky summer of accelerated Covid-19 infections despite widespread vaccinations in much of the developed world. The re-opening has been more modest than anticipated …

Re-Opening | May 14, 2021

The successful vaccine rollout has enabled a gradual re-opening across the United States and other parts of the developed world. A combination of money growth, wealth effect, robust earnings and …

2021 Snapshots | January 10, 2021

The global economy had a massive shock in early 2020 when the Covid pandemic erupted and shutdowns ensued. Despite a big rebound, U.S. real GDP was still 3.4% below its …

Easy Money | September 4, 2020

To many observers the global economy seems stuck on pause as Covid-19 rolls its way through different geographies. Workers able to work remotely are doing so, while millions of “non-essential …

Divergence | May 8, 2020

The speed with which this particular market episode has unfolded is unprecedented. It took just four weeks for the broad market to fall between 35-40%, bottoming on March 23, 2020. …

Pandemic | March 11, 2020

The last several weeks have seen an enormous amount of market volatility. Not just the stock market – this volatility has affected every financial market in the world, from stocks …