‘Lower & Longer’ Has Legs: Mary Ellen Stanek Addresses Baird Advisors Institutional Investors Conference

For the 18th straight year, Baird Advisors held its Institutional Investors Conference in Kohler, Wisconsin. Additionally, in what has become a feature at the annual conference, Baird Advisors Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer Mary Ellen Stanek, CFA provided the group’s annual investment outlook. Stanek explained that Baird Advisors, which manages $57.5 billion in fixed income assets using a consistent and predictable approach, believes the economy will remain in a period of expansion that is remarkable for its longevity, but not its magnitude. “We believe the same two words continue in prominence,” she said: “Lower and longer.”

While making the case for sustained, steady growth, Stanek also identified a handful of structural headwinds that have limited the expansion and could create challenges for fixed-income market participants. To read her entire remarks, click here.

About Baird Advisors

Baird Advisors is Baird’s fixed income asset management division and advisor to the Baird Bond Funds. The group manages more than $57 billion in taxable and tax-exempt fixed income portfolios. For more information, visit www.bairdfunds.com.

About Baird

Baird is an employee-owned, international wealth management, capital markets, private equity and asset management firm with offices in the United States, Europe and Asia. Established in 1919, Baird has more than 3,400 associates serving the needs of individual, corporate, institutional and municipal clients. Baird has $171 billion in client assets. Committed to being a great place to work, Baird ranked No. 4 on FORTUNE’s 100 Best Companies to Work For in 2017 – its 14th consecutive year on the list. Baird is the marketing name of Baird Financial Group. Baird’s principal operating subsidiaries are Robert W. Baird & Co. in the United States and Robert W. Baird Group Ltd. in Europe. Baird also has an operating subsidiary in Asia supporting Baird’s investment banking and private equity operations. For more information, please visit Baird’s Web site at www.rwbaird.com.

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