By: Erik Kelly, President Borrowers of long-term debt are always faced with this question: should we borrow on a fixed rate or a variable...

By Georgina Walleshauser, Associate It is typical for issuers with an upcoming refunding transaction to engage an escrow bidding...

Mr. Lippold joined Blue Rose as a Quantitative Analyst, providing modeling, analytics, market data, and research in support of the...

Ms. Walleshauser joined Blue Rose in 2017. As an Analyst, she was responsible for providing analytical, research, and transactional...

Justin Krieg provides financial and economic consulting services to the firm’s clients. Within the firm’s P3 advisory practice, Dr. Krieg...

By: Brandon Lippold, Assistant Vice President Effective July 17, 2020, through September 30, 2020, Nonprofit entities can obtain federal...

Looking towards sunnier days ahead!

By: Georgina Walleshauser There continues to be a disparity in the current market between pre-refunded municipal bonds and Treasury...

By: Johan Rosenberg, Chairman The social unrest across our nation prompted me to re-examine our companies’ hiring practices and general...

By: Brandon Lippold, Associate Since we published our 2019 Municipal Market Year in Review market update in December, the financial...

The return of tax-exempt advance refundings, among other measures, could come soon. By: Erik Kelly, President of Blue Rose Capital...

In the 90-plus days since COVID-19 interrupted the 2020 Spring term in an historically unprecedented fashion, the credit rating agencies...

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

By Samuel Gruer As a result of the economic slowdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, many budgets are strained and borrowers continue to...

By Georgina Walleshauser As many of you are aware, interest rates on US Treasury securities have recently fallen significantly....

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

By Georgina Walleshauser Many issuers with outstanding variable rate demand bonds (“VRDBs”) have been closely tracking the SIFMA index in...

By Samuel Gruer, Managing Director Many higher education institutions and other borrowers in the municipal market are enticed by the low...

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

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