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In the early days of COVID, The Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece by Allison Schrager that has stayed with us throughout the pandemic. Schrager built her essay on the...

In this webinar, Kaufman Hall Senior Vice Presidents Steven Sohn and Geoff Stenger will discuss impacts of the LIBOR transition on bank credit agreements and derivatives, including LIBOR replacement alternatives, amendment options for existing agreements, and fallback rate calculations for LIBOR-based swaps.

Happy New Year and high hopes for a healthy, happy, and successful 2022; the one certainty is that it won’t be uneventful. Let’s kick off this year’s discussion with a level-setting...

This week Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell affirmed that the wind down in Quantitative Easing will accelerate while introducing the potential for three 0.25% rate hikes during...

We are heading into the holiday lull, but markets will continue to be buffeted by a host of competing events. Markets careen from one risk to another and key volatility indicators—like...

The inflation debate—transitory or structural—continues, but so far it doesn’t seem to be having much of an impact on rates. Long rates have moved higher in 2021 but the current 30-year...

The Fed is predicting that inflationary pressures are transitory, but healthcare leaders face the business challenge of major expense inputs that have moved to new levels based on pressures that may have a relatively long tail.

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell suggested that the Fed would start tapering its bond purchasing activities in November with the plan of fully winding down the element of market support by mid-2022, at which point they might begin to raise short-term rates.

When health system leaders are thinking about building a medical office building or ambulatory surgery center as part of their ambulatory and physician affiliation strategy, the first question they should ask is, “Do we need to incentivize physicians in this market with real estate and create owners instead of renters?”

The pathway through the period of widespread volatility we face will require making resiliency a central organizational objective, and the only way to achieve financial resiliency is through effective resource allocation.

It is difficult to keep coming up with superlatives to describe the current tax-exempt market. We were involved in pricings this week for several different healthcare credits and...

The inflation chatter continues, and the Fed indicates an expectation of increasing the Federal Funds rate earlier than anticipated and hints at starting to wind down Quantitative...