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Mastering Expectations
by Shawn Narancich, CFA Executive Vice President of Research A Tradition Unlike Any Other As another Masters golf tourney gets underway in Augusta, Georgia this week, investors are beginning to...
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Movin’ On Up
by Ralph Cole, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Movin’ On Up U.S. oil production is finally starting to fall. After unrelenting production increases for the past several years, weekly oil...
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Taking a Bigger Bite Out of the Apple
by Jason Norris, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Apple reported earnings earlier this week. Due to recent strength in the stock, investors took profits. Specifically, sales grew 27 percent...
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Belaboring Labor
by Shawn Narancich, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Working for a Living Investors unnerved by disappointing economic data of late breathed a sigh of relief with the April jobs report, which...
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Krys-Rusoff Appointed to Metro Exposition and Recreation Committee
Deidra Krys-Rusoff, senior vice president and portfolio manager, has been appointed to the Metro Exposition and Recreation Commission (MERC). While new to the MERC, Krys-Rusoff is not new to Metro,...
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Spinning Wheel
by Ralph Cole, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Spinning Wheel The strong dollar has been a headwind for S&P earnings so far this year. However, that headwind appears to be dissipating....
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Ferguson Wellman Capital Management Ranked 32 on Forbes Magazine’s Top 100...
PORTLAND, Ore. – May 1, 2015 – Ferguson Wellman Capital Management was named by Forbes Magazine as a top wealth management firm. This is the third year that Ferguson Wellman was represented on the...
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Wired and Connected
by Jason Norris, CFA Executive Vice President of Research For technology junkies, the Re/code conference in Southern California is one of the highlights of the year. It is a broad mix of public and...
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You’re Hired!
by Shawn Narancich, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Green Shoots A week chocked full of economic insight concluded with a bang, as a strong jobs report for the month of May provided more...
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Stuck With You
by Ralph Cole, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Stuck With You We all know too much of a good thing is no longer a good thing: that has been the case with interest rates in recent years....
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Supreme Summer
by Shawn Narancich, CFA Executive Vice President of Research While Chinese stocks endured more losses in a week that now puts the A-Shares Index into correction territory, U.S. investors continue to...
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Mind the Gap
by Jason Norris, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Volatility in the second quarter reigned in both equity and bond markets. Interest rates rose close to half-of-a–percent, resulting in negative...
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Market Letter Second Quarter 2015
Please click here to find our Market Letter Second Quarter 2015. We hope you find our economic insights interesting and informative.
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Patience
by Ralph Cole, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Patience It’s been a strange week in “Euroland.” After a resounding “no” vote on the Greek debt bailout referendum last Sunday, it appeared that...
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Ferguson Wellman Ranked Second on Portland Business Journal Money Management...
Ferguson Wellman Capital Management is pleased to announce that the firm has been named by Portland Business Journal as a top money management firm in their 2015 Wealth Management and Financial...
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Ferguson Wellman Ranked a “Top RIA” by Financial Advisor
Ferguson Wellman Capital Management has been named by Financial Advisor magazine as a top investment company. Financial Advisor named Ferguson Wellman 44th out of 203 U.S. firms in the $1...
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Summertime Blues (and Yoo-hoos)
by Ralph Cole, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Summertime Blues (and Yoo-hoos) Earnings season is a whirlwind period of companies reporting their most recent quarterly results. We believe...
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Good News First
by Jason Norris, CFA Executive Vice President of Research Good News First The jobs market continues to chug along adding 215,000 jobs in the month of July with upward revisions to June and May of...
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Portland Business Journal Writes About the Passing of Ferguson Wellman...
Posted on Portland Business Journal website by Matthew Kish August 11, 2015 Norb Wellman, who co-founded one of Oregon’s most prominent wealth management firms, died Saturday from complications related...
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Shawn Narancich Quoted in Reuters
Posted on Reuters.com Investors eye gaming stocks beaten-down by China headwinds By Ross Kerber August 13, 2015 Shares of U.S. gaming companies operating in Macau have tumbled on worries over China but...
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