Blaine Rollins, CFA
Blaine is Managing Director, responsible for market insight and strategy. He is the author of the hugely popular Weekly Research Briefing, which has a weekly circulation of over 80,000.
Prior to joining Hamilton Lane, Blaine was Chief Market Strategist of 361 Capital where his responsibilities included investment research, portfolio construction and management, and hedging and trading strategies. Blaine was also a member of 361 Capital’s Board of Managers. Previously, Blaine served as Executive Vice President at Janus Capital Group (now Janus Henderson) and Portfolio Manager of the Janus Fund, Janus Balanced Fund, Janus Equity Income Fund and the Janus Triton Fund. He began his career as a financial analyst at AMG in 1989 and has three decades of financial services industry experience.
Blaine earned a B.S. in Finance from the University of Colorado and has earned the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).
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Weekly Research Briefing: Grab Your Comfy Chair
The fourth quarter begins with a continued air of uncertainty for investors. While the markets dodged a big bullet over the weekend in avoiding a government shutdown, other concerns remain.
Weekly Research Briefing: Storm Brewing
Stock investors have gone on strike and shutdown. Fed up with the line of dominoes being laid out, the CBOE S&P 500 Volatility Index popped from an ultra-low handle of 12 to 16-18 in just 8 days. You know the dominoes: government shutdown, UAW strike, rising Treasury yields, climbing oil prices, resumption of student loan payments, September seasonality and the N.Y. Yankees missing the playoffs.
Weekly Research Briefing: Change is Coming
While nature's hues shift as September moves toward October, I wonder if some new headwinds in the economy will begin to influence the price change colors on my stock market screens.
Weekly Research Briefing: Prime Time
With the summer now ended, September begins the wind up through the year end for the financial markets. So, while companies are executing on their M&A and capital structure plans, portfolio managers and advisors are thinking about their calendar year performance numbers
Weekly Research Briefing: Back to the Data
No fireworks this year at Jackson Hole as Jerome Powell and the Fed stuck to their data driven playbook.
Weekly Research Briefing: A Different Climate in Jackson Hole
Not only will the temperatures be half from what many economists and Fed members are used to during the month of August, but today's current set of stats is wildly different from that of a year ago.
Weekly Research Briefing: Summertime Treats
Investors have $5 trillion of their money market funds earning away at a 4-5% rate. As inflation slows and the economy remains solid, what is an investor to do with all this cash?
Weekly Research Briefing: The Summer of Pink
It was a big week for those dark red colored recessionary forecasts. The ongoing strength in the manufacturing and consumer economy was helped by continued solid job gains which led several top firms to erase the negative growth rates on their GDP forecasts.
Weekly Research Briefing: Grab a Chair
Markets up, and time now for feet up. Hopefully the only thing slowing down in August, along with all the broadly measured inflation indexes, will be your heart rate. What a great two weeks of earnings, economic data and inflation reports. While it is still too early to applaud the Fed for a successful soft landing, we can at least raise an umbrella'd glass to the Fed Chairman for his current efforts.