Trends in the New Year

As we transition into a new year, I reflect on 2014 as a year of steady but slow economic progress. Continued improvements in the labor markets moved the U.S. closer to the self-sustaining economy the Fed is targeting. Quantitative easing ended quietly while the U.S. equity markets continued their march upward, adding to an improved wealth effect. So in spite of continued head winds of slowing Chinese growth and new contractions in Japan and Europe, the U.S. economy, on balance, performed at or above the Feds expectation.

Here at Capital Advisors Group we had a banner year posting a 41% gain in separate account cash assets under management (12/31/13 to 12/31/14) and a 102% increase in assets under advisement on our FundIQ^® and CounterPartyIQ^® risk platforms (12/31/13 to 11/26/14). For this success, I would like to thank all the dedicated professionals here at CAG and all the corporate treasury groups we serve. Also in 2014, we announced our partnership with BNY Mellon to offer our FundIQ^® money market fund research through their Liquidity DIRECT^SM portal. We are proud to work with BNY Mellon and look forward to continuing to serve their client base. An important foundation of our success this year was listening to the investment and risk management needs of Corporate Treasurers and fashioning solutions that provided more control over ever expanding exposures. Looking forward, we anticipate last year’s slow and steady progress will translate into a year of transitions in 2015. Transitions in interest rates, investment channels selected and in credit risk. To expand on these points our year-end research highlights the major trends we see impacting cash investors in 2015.

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Best Regards,

Ben Campbell
President & CEO