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The Shield - Blue Rose: A Trusted Advisor in an Uncertain 2025
Blue Rose Remains a Steady, Trusted Advisor Amid Potential Significant Changes Ahead in 2025.
Erik Kelly
Jan 223 min read


Enrollment Trends for 2024 and Beyond
Higher education has experienced a few years of tumult and recovery since the COVID pandemic.
Blue Rose Marketing
Dec 19, 20246 min read


The Shield - Higher Education Rating Agency Medians
In fiscal 2023, the sunsetting of federal pandemic relief aid and growing inflationary pressures weighed on public and private universities
Max Wilkinson
Sep 9, 20247 min read


The Shield - July Market Update
While rate volatility has somewhat calmed, the interest rate environment is still elevated relative to the last several years.
Ben Pietrek
Jul 31, 20245 min read


The Shield - Transitioning From LIBOR: A Year With SOFR
A little over a year ago, the transition from the London Interbank Offered Rate (“LIBOR”) to the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (“SOFR”)
Brandon Lippold
Jul 12, 20244 min read


The Shield - May Market Update
Markets have remained volatile through the first four months of 2024, continuing a theme that we observed at the end of last year.
Ben Pietrek
May 15, 20245 min read


The Shield - Market and Company Update
Blue Rose Presented at the WHEFA Lunch & Learn Webinar. Blue Rose Capital Advisors Erik Kelly, President, and Brandon Lippold, Vice Presi...
Blue Rose Marketing
Apr 17, 20244 min read


FAFSA Delays and SIFMA Index Volatility Among Key Market Considerations to Open 2024
As FAFSA Challenges Persist, Colleges and Universities Scramble to Adjust. By now, colleges and universities are quite familiar with...
Max Wilkinson
Mar 14, 20247 min read


The Shield - Looking Back, Looking Ahead
It is with great joy that our Blue Rose advisory team serves organizations across the country with the goal of improving their financial...
Erik Kelly
Feb 1, 20246 min read


An Introduction to Our Outstanding Additional Advisory Services
Whether applying our own expertise to tricky problems or assisting clients who are either temporarily or perpetually short-staffed...
John Elliott
Dec 12, 20235 min read


The Shield - Third Quarter Market Update
The third quarter of 2023 has seen significant market movements and much uncertainty around the United States’ economic outlook for 2024...
Ben Pietrek
Oct 23, 20235 min read


The Shield - Final LIBOR Transition Update
LIBOR cessation occurred as scheduled on June 30th of this year, and now most variable instruments which historically referenced LIBOR...
Blue Rose Marketing
Aug 30, 20234 min read


The Shield - Rating Agency Update: New S&P Criteria and FY2022 Medians
As we’ve passed the mid-year point in 2023, rating agencies have published higher education sector updates and median data for fiscal year..
Blue Rose Marketing
Aug 1, 20239 min read


The Shield: 2023 First Quarter Market Update
After a whirlwind 2022, many had hoped for calmer markets in the first quarter of 2023.
Ben Pietrek
May 9, 20236 min read


The Shield: March 2023 LIBOR Update
LIBOR cessation is now just three months away (June 30, 2023), and most of the transition process appears to be going to plan.
Blue Rose Marketing
Mar 31, 20234 min read


The Shield - ESG-Labeled Bonds: Can They Deliver “Greenium?”
With the tremendous buzz around the political, social, and economic factors at play around ESG (“Environmental, Social...
John Elliott
Feb 27, 20238 min read

The Shield - 2022 Municipal Market in Review
The municipal market landscape in 2022 was a meaningful departure from what we experienced in 2021 and 2020...
Blue Rose Marketing
Jan 13, 20236 min read

Thankfulness for Our Team, Our Mission and A Continuing “Service” Tradition
This year, unlike the prior two, we were able to gather in-person to enjoy the side-by-side work, brainstorming, and camaraderie
Erik Kelly
Nov 29, 20225 min read

The Shield - Keeping Pace with Moody’s New ESG Methodology
ESG, or “Environmental, Social, and Governance” has been a hot topic of conversation across the financial world for years...
Ben Pietrek
Oct 5, 20228 min read


The Shield: Mergers, Acquisitions, and Hard Choices
Colleges and universities across the country are facing unprecedented pressures. Inflation and rising costs are the most recent factors...
John Elliott
Sep 1, 20228 min read
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