Here are Fort Pitt Capital Group’s finance articles for June 2020: “Sizing the commercial real estate bust,” is our first article and it comes from The Institutional Risk Analyst. The impending commercial real estate bust in the U.S. may be bigger than the residential mortgage bust of the 2000s and…
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IRS Announces 2020 RMD Rollback Permissible
We’ve been having a lot of conversations with our clients about RMD (Required Minimum Distribution) Rollbacks this year. There is an official new development that may benefit some of our clients that we want to share. One of the features of the CARES Act put into place earlier this year…
Market volatility, fiscal stimulus and economic data in 2020
During the depths of the first quarter market plunge, we discussed our view and expectation that the stock market would rebound well before the economy improved or the COVID-19 virus was contained. History has taught us that equity markets don’t wait for all the bad news, economic fallout and corporate…
Celebrating Father’s Day 2020
Pennsylvania began lifting some of the social distancing requirements just in time for people to celebrate Father’s Day! Although some people may have had to change their plans, our employees at Fort Pitt Capital Group were still able to celebrate the fathers in their lives. Bill Engel had his parents…
Emily Sippel Employee Spotlight
Emily Sippel is the newest employee at Fort Pitt Capital Group. She had the unique experience of joining the firm as a Service Advisor while our team was working remotely. We caught up with her to learn more about her job, interests, and pet rabbit. Check out our Q&A with…
Protect yourself from cybercrime while working remotely
If you are one of the millions of people lucky enough to work remotely during the coronavirus pandemic impacting workers globally, scammers and hackers have jumped on the opportunity to leverage our need for information to access personal computers and information through phishing or other spoofing schemes. It is important…
2020 Vetrepreneur of the Year Award Winner
For the third year in a row, Fort Pitt had the honor of sponsoring the Pittsburgh Vetrepreneur of the Year award. Each year, this award recognizes a regional veteran business owner who exhibits characteristics that enable their business to flourish. Martin Beichner, the recipient of the award for 2020, will…
Charlie’s Finance Articles May 2020
Here are Fort Pitt Capital Group’s finance articles for May 2020: We start off with the Bloomberg article, “Wall Street mines Apple and Google mobility data to spot revival.” COVID-19 is like no other shock to the markets, so most investors are discounting traditional indicators of a recovery and getting…
Your Emergency Fund – How Much, Plus Why, How, and Where
It is times like these that stress the importance of planning a healthy savings strategy and how much of an emergency fund you should have. If you are experiencing your own personal recession amid these times of Social Distancing and are among the almost 40 million Americans that have filed…
Business Strategy Planning – Be Prepared for a Crisis
The need for solid business strategy planning becomes painfully clear in a crisis. The Covid-19 pandemic has posed a threat – not only to the physical health of individuals but also to the economic survival of many closely-held businesses. The nation has been put into a medically induced economic coma,…
