By: Erik Kelly, President It is evident that issuers and borrowers across the public finance sector – from States and State agencies to municipalities, from ...

By Erik Kelly Summary In Minnesota, spring weather is typically rather erratic. This has been evidenced once again in 2020, which has made me ponder the simi...

Paycheck Protection Program—Available to Institutions With Less Than 500 Employees* By Ann Bolin The recently signed CARES Act contains a program that allows...

By Justin Krieg The current COVID-19 health pandemic is creating tremendous concern for the higher education sector: Moody’s has downgraded the sector to a “...

Interest rates have never been lower. Yes, participants in the fixed income and public finance markets have said this before; many times, in fact, over the l...

Who is DeveloP3rs? DeveloP3rs is a division of Blue Rose Capital Advisors, who recognizes the strategic value of Public-Private Partnerships (“P3s”) and is p...

By Megan Roth Happy new year! At Blue Rose, we welcome the new year as it presents our advisory team and our clients with another opportunity to improve thei...

The year began with a significant amount of market uncertainty, with many market participants anticipating impending market-wide turmoil. However, contrary t...

Blue Rose Capital Advisors is thankful for the new opportunities and progress made during this holiday season. One advancement that Blue Rose Capital Advisor...

By Erik Kelly In my house, baseball season turns to football season, which quickly turns to my favorite – basketball season.  For many like us in the norther...

By Brandon Lippold & Craig Haymaker Rates have fallen and yield curves have flattened (and in some areas inverted) significantly since the start of the year....

By Max Wilkinson With the passage of tax reform in late 2017, refinancing opportunities for municipal borrowers took a significant hit due to the elimination...

By: Adrienne Booker Over the last two months, S&P Global Ratings (S&P), Moody’s Investors Service (Moody’s) and Fitch Ratings Inc. (Fitch) released their res...

by Brandon Lippold The objective of this update is to provide insight into key municipal market developments that have occurred since the start of 2019. Most...

by Justin Krieg Ph.D. Public-Private Partnerships (P3s) in higher education continue to grow across several dimensions, including services/assets where the P...

by Heidi Lindahl Spring is in the air, and that means conference season is here as well. It doesn’t take much research to find a conference in your area, in ...

by Max Wilkinson Last year, the SEC announced its plans to amend Rule 15c2-12. This proposed amendment recently took effect at the end of February 2019. Rule...

by Brandon Lippold Last June, Blue Rose published an article discussing the troubles facing LIBOR and introducing the rate currently pegged to replace it – t...

by Scott Talcott In recent months, the growing flatness of the yield curve has been a consistently discussed topic in the market. Essentially, while the “nor...