Laura Ehrenberg-Chesler should know a thing or two about investing. She and her partner run a boutique asset management firm that's won them several awards for performance over the last year, putting them on a nationally recognized level of firms like theirs.

Here's Laura take on CNBC's recently released (free) iPhone app.

Part of the strategy in working with client, Crossvault Capital Management, is to reach out to local thought leaders, such as Ernesto Bromley, to gain their insight and views on macro economic trends.

Listen to what Ernesto has to say about Hispanic advertising and social media.

And see the broader commentary here: via crossvault.com.

Client, Marilou Long, with Crossvault Capital Management contributes to today's San Antonio Express-News in her Guest Voice column.

Read her take on the deficit here: via mysanantonio.com

 

This is one of my clients, Crossvault Capital Management.

Yup, they are a client, but I am also a client of theirs. While my portfolio is down a bit, it has recovered a bit and had I not take their advise 18 months ago, my retirement would have been further in the tank.

Don't look for hot stock advise here. You ain't gonna find it. Laura & Marilou get the long term, and invest accordingly.

Oh, aside from being really smart, did I mention that they are really nice people?

Here's the post regarding the headline above.....

In an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal today, John Mackey, the CEO of Whole Foods, lays out a very cogent and convincing alternative to the massive restructuring of our healthcare system being proposed by the Democratic leadership in Congress and the Administration.

“With a projected $1.8 trillion deficit for 2009, several trillions more in deficits projected over the next decade, and with both Medicare and Social Security entitlement spending about to ratchet up several notches over the next 15 years as Baby Boomers become eligible for both, we are rapidly running out of other people’s money. These deficits are simply not sustainable. They are either going to result in unprecedented new taxes and inflation, or they will bankrupt us.

While we clearly need health-care reform, the last thing our country needs is a massive new health-care entitlement that will create hundreds of billions of dollars of new unfunded deficits and move us much closer to a government takeover of our health-care system. Instead, we should be trying to achieve reforms by moving in the opposite direction—toward less government control and more individual empowerment. Here are eight reforms that would greatly lower the cost of health care for everyone:”  Please click on the link above for the rest of the column.

Read the rest of the story here:  via crossvault.com

For client, Crossvault....

by Laura Ehrenberg Chesler on August 12, 2009

in Credit Crisis, Crossvault Capital, Debt, Employment

Yesterday evening the “Wall Street Journal” announced that according to the majority of the economists they surveyed “the recession is over”.  That may well be in terms of GDP no longer declining.

Read the rest of the story here:  via crossvaultblog.com

For client, Crossvault Capital Management, here's part of the on-going Crossvault Conversations series. The idea here, is to gain insights from regional thought leaders that represent marco economic trends.

In this interview, Robert Kenigstein is a high custom home builder in San Antonio and has a unique pulse for where the high of the market is going and their sentiment for buying into this market.

For client, Crossvault Capital Management, we are continuing with our interviews of regional thought leaders who represent leading economic indicators. Here's Image Homes' Roberto Kenigstein sharing views in part I in a two-part series.

Client, Crossvault Capital Management has a conversation with Sandler O'Neill's Marc Flaster on his outlook for 2009 and longer term, 2010.

For client, Crossvault Capital Management, our week-long series on the current state of the banking industry and the economy continues with insights from Marc Flaster, Founding Principal at New York-based Sandler O’Neill.

Today in part II of the series, Marc talks about the state of the credit card industry.