Sit Investment Associates provides quality investment management expertise in domestic and international growth equities and fixed income. Investment management services are offered across four channels: Separate Accounts, Private Investment Funds, Collective Investment Funds, and Mutual Funds. We take pride in serving as a true extension of our clients’ operations, providing highly individualized service in an increasingly challenging economic and financial environment.
We view investing as the practice of applying a consistent philosophy and decision-making process over meaningful time periods. In fact, the firm’s success is built on long-term client relationships, which in turn are built on a foundation of trust, commitment, understanding, and expertise.
The firm is owned by its seasoned investment professionals, who work hands-on in every aspect of the investment process and client service. We are 100 percent committed to achieving clients’ investment objectives, because our clients’ success results in our success.
Global Investment Outlook and Strategy
January 9, 2020
After a turbulent end to 2018, the S&P 500 Index produced its second strongest gain in two decades in 2019, as investors battled their way through an often chaotic, news-driven year. The U.S. economy enters 2020 on solid footing, aided by precautionary monetary easing, still-stimulative fiscal policy, a healthy consumer, muted inflation, reduced trade-related risks, and a prospective uptick in global growth. With the Federal Reserve now signaling an extended period of policy restraint, the lagged effect of the cumulative 75-basis point interest rate cut in 2019 will bolster domestic activity well into 2020. Finalization of both the “phase one” U.S.-China trade deal and the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement should boost business confidence and spur capital spending as well.
From an investment perspective, the same set of conditions that has provided a near-perfect environment for stocks over the decade-long expansion appears sustainable over the intermediate-term, including slow economic growth and low interest rates underpinned by structural disinflationary pressures. With equity valuations now at “fair” levels, we believe an improvement in corporate earnings will be a key determinant of the direction and magnitude of equity returns going forward. While the “Goldilocks” environment is supportive of stocks near-term, 2020 is not without risks, including a re-escalation of the trade war, a further step down in economic growth, and unexpected inflation.
For more details, including a longer discussion of the outlook for global equity markets in 2020, please see Sit Investment Associates’ January 2020 Global Investment Outlook and Strategy paper. Click here: Global Outlook and Strategy (Adobe Acrobat) or e-mail us at: siainfo@sitinvest.com.
Since 2005, we have been proud supporters of the Federated Challenge in their efforts to support youth mentoring through Big Brothers Big Sisters.
MMAF Has Awarded Over 17,000 Grants
Since its inception in 2005, Minnesotan’s Military Appreciation Fund (MMAF) has awarded over 17,000 grants totaling over $10.5 million to Minnesota military personnel and their families. MMAF is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation. It is a statewide fundraising initiative by the citizens of Minnesota. Its mission is to say “thanks” to Minnesota service members and their families by providing cash grants to those who are making sacrifices in the defense of our freedoms in combat zones around the world.
The tragedy of 9/11 compelled the late Eugene C. Sit, founder of Sit Investment Associates Inc., to create MMAF in order to thank and give back to Minnesota service members. Sit Investment Associates Inc. continues to support the efforts of MMAF.
To donate and learn more about Minnesotans’ Military Appreciation Fund, please visit the website at www.thankmntroops.org.