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Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary – Wildfire: Correction and Addition

Author: David R. Kotok, Post Date: September 22, 2020
Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary - Wildfire Correction and Addition

In our recent commentary “Wildfire: More Than a Song” https://www.cumber.com/cumberland-advisors-market-commentary-wildfire-more-than-a-song/, we stated that our nation’s federally owned forests “are housed in the Department of the Interior.” That is true up to a point: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), which is an arm of the Department of the Interior, does manage 246 million acres of […]

Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary – Wildfire: More Than a Song

Author: David R. Kotok, Post Date: September 20, 2020
Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary - Wildfire More Than a Song

Let’s begin this missive with some remarks on wildfire issues from Philippa Dunne of TLR Analytics. Philippa has vast personal experience with fires and is one of our nation’s highly skilled analysts of labor data cohorts, including firefighters. “Over the last decades, yes decades, news pieces on short-handed fire-crews losing control of western fires have […]

Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary – Fire and Water

Author: Patricia Healy, CFA, Post Date: November 1, 2019
Market Commentary - Cumberland Advisors - California - A Note on the Fires

The fires engulfing parts of California are feared to become the nation’s worst fire disaster, possibly surpassing 2017 and 2018 fire events. Spurred on by wind gusts of up to 80 mph, this disaster harkens back to Superstorm Sandy, which occurred seven years ago, in October 2012. Superstorm Sandy soaked the Northeast, and its 80-mph […]

Zika, Climate Change & January 25

Author: David R. Kotok, Post Date: January 9, 2019
Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary - Zika

On December 30, as 2018 drew to an end, NBC’s Meet the Press aired an entire program on the climate change crisis, well worth watching (https://www.nbc.com/meet-the-press/video/meet-the-press-1230/3850857). Host Chuck Todd gave no air time to climate change denialism. Instead, the episode plunged into analyzing the crisis at hand, what might be done, what impediments slow our […]

January 25th & Gary Shilling

Author: , Post Date: December 11, 2018
GIC & USFSM - Adapting to a Changing Climate - Challenges & Opportunities

Gary Shilling is an icon of our finance industry. His monthly missive is priceless. Fred Rossi edits and researches. The work product is extraordinary. We thank them for permission to share the December monthly in full. The trigger for our request was their thorough examination of the climate-change debate and the coincident timing, as registration […]

Climate Change Resources

Author: , Post Date: December 6, 2018
GIC & USFSM - Adapting to a Changing Climate - Challenges & Opportunities

Cumberland Advisors is a sponsor of the upcoming USF-GIC event, “Adapting to a Changing Climate: Global to Local Impact” Climate Change Resources Cumberland Advisors, the Global Interdependence Center, the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, the Science and Environment Council and Atlas Insurance are the primary sponsors in this event that will feature Bob Bunting among […]

Climate Change Conference Set for Jan. 25

Author: , Post Date: December 5, 2018
GIC & USFSM - Adapting to a Changing Climate - Challenges & Opportunities

Excerpt of Sarasota Magazine’s… Climate Change Conference Set for Jan. 25 Topics will include the implication of rising sea levels for Florida, the effect of climate change on hurricanes, whether climate change worsens red tide and more. By Staff 12/4/2018 at 10:37am Image: NPS Climate Change Response/Flickr Cumberland Advisors, the Global Interdependence Center, the University […]

January 25th and California Fires

Author: David R. Kotok, Post Date:
GIC & USFSM - Adapting to a Changing Climate - Challenges & Opportunities

The January 25th GIC-USFSM conference on adaptive climate change, Adapting to a Changing Climate: Challenges & Opportunities, to be held at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, includes discussion of fires as well as hurricanes. Here is a recent Bloomberg story for reference: “What Wildfires and Hurricanes Mean for the Global Economy” (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-22/what-wildfires-and-hurricanes-mean-for-the-global-economy). 2018 has […]

Red Tide, January 25th Sarasota Conference on Climate Change

Author: David R. Kotok, Post Date: November 28, 2018
GIC & USFSM - Adapting to a Changing Climate - Challenges & Opportunities

The January 25th GIC-USFSM conference, Adapting to a Changing Climate: Challenges & Opportunities, to be held at the University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, is open to the public. The sponsors, including Cumberland, helped so as to allow the cost of registration to be held to $50, a registration fee that covers the lunch.   Climate-change […]

California, Land of Natural Disasters?

Author: Patricia Healy, CFA, Post Date: November 13, 2018
Market Commentary - Cumberland Advisors - California, Land of Natural Disasters

Last week we conducted a review of our California municipal bond holdings along the San Andreas Fault looking for holdings that may be more susceptible to credit deterioration in the event of a disaster. At the time, little did we know that wildfires would engulf large swaths of California. First, our hearts and prayers go […]