CrossingBridge Insights

CrossingBridge Insights is our opportunity to share our thoughts on interesting trends and data points through our Quarterly Commentaries, Market Observations, recent news, and random musings. We hope you enjoy and we welcome your feedback.


SPACs – Implications of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA)

The recently-enacted Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) includes a 1% excise tax on stock repurchases by corporations that takes effect in January 2023. The impact for SPACs remains subject to guidance from the US Treasury. We are monitoring the...

Sep 19, 2022

Q2 2022 Commentary - In Flanders Fields

Currently, investors are caught in an economic “No Man’s Land” between the dangers of inflation and fears of recession as the Fed continues to raise interest rates. In the first half of 2022, U.S. equities and fixed income portfolios suffered some...

Jul 19, 2022

Q1 2022 Commentary - Locomotive Breath

The song Locomotive Breath portrays a loss of control resulting from extreme, unanticipated events and the need to make the best of it as we go forward, which could describe today’s geopolitical and economic backdrop. In our 2021 year-end letter, we...

Apr 18, 2022

Q4 2021 Commentary - Think Positive, but Test Negative

Government intervention often results in unintended consequences. Thomas Hoenig, former president of the Kansas City Federal Reserve Bank, in his just-published book, The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy,...

Jan 18, 2022

Q3 2021 Commentary - A Change Is Gonna Come

Throughout history, pandemics have created structural changes: the fall of empires, the rise of Christianity, the collapse of economic systems, peace agreements among nations and societal introspection A Change is Gonna Come1 Throughout history,...

Oct 29, 2021

CrossingBridge Advisors Launches Pre-Merger SPAC ETF For Investors As A Fixed Income Alternative

NEW YORK — Sept. 21, 2021 — CrossingBridge Advisors, LLC (“CrossingBridge”), an investment management firm specializing in ultra-short and low duration strategies, including special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs), today announced the launch...

Sep 28, 2021

Q2 2021 Commentary - Jubliee

In response to the onset of the COVID crisis in late March 2020, Congress passed the CARES Act, which directed cash payments to nearly 80% of American households, providing temporary peace of mind for those with limited savings and living paycheck...

Jul 22, 2021

Q1 2021 Commentary - Rubber Ducky: Ode to Sesame Street

The U.S. government’s aggressive stimulus in response to the COVID-19 crisis, while necessary, has been like drawing a bubble bath for the financial markets. The $1.9 trillion American Rescue Plan and an anticipated $2.0 trillion infrastructure...

Apr 19, 2021

Q4 2020 Commentary - Perception is Reality

Perception of a post-COVID economic rebound and 2021 optimism became a financial market reality in 2020, with robust bullishness across most asset classes from stocks to bonds to bitcoin. This is a classic illustration of “reflexivity” in which a...

Jan 22, 2021

Q3 2020 Commentary - The Iceberg Phenomenon

Scientifically, 10% of an iceberg is visible while 90% of its volume is unseen, below the water’s surface. In the U.S. equity and fixed income markets, the dramatic rebound from the March trough brought this to mind as there is a lot more going on...

Oct 30, 2020