To view a PDF version of this quarter's letter, please click here. Dear Clients: After enduring a brutally frigid “winter” in 2022 that saw the worst year for U.S. stocks since the depths of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in 2008 (4th worst for the S&P 500 since 1945) and worst [...]
Kirr, Marbach & Company, LLC Announces Zach Greiner, CFP® and Maggie Kamman, CMA, CFP® Promoted to Directors COLUMBUS, Ind., December 28, 2024/—Kirr, Marbach & Company, LLC (“Kirr, Marbach”) is pleased to announce Zach Greiner, CFP® and Maggie Kamman, CMA, CFP® have been promoted to the position of Director. “Zach and Maggie joined [...]
Hoosier native revealed superpower of ‘Simple Man’ lifestyle Mickey Kim / December 8, 2023 Geoffrey Lincoln Holt was born in 1941 in Indianapolis, IN and passed away this June at 82. By all accounts, Holt lived an unremarkable and anonymous life. A dyslexic, he graduated from the former [...]
EV struggles confirm obituaries for IC were premature Mickey Kim and Roger Lee / November 3, 2023 Demand for electric vehicles (EV) exploded post-Covid. Particularly on the coasts and in big cities, EVs became de rigueur among the “green energy” cognoscenti/early adopters (though EVs have actually been around [...]
Q3 2023 Market Recap - Podcast Associate Director of Client Service Zach Greiner and Chief Investment Officer Mark Foster, CFA give an overview of the market in the third quarter of 2023. Together they look at how today's political environment affects the market, where the fixed income market currently stands and what [...]
‘Dumb Money’ fuels myth David ‘GameStonked’ Goliath Mickey Kim and Roger Lee / October 13, 2023 The madness surrounding GameStop (GME) in early 2021 captured the imagination of both professional/institutional investors (“smart money”) and amateur/retail investors (“dumb money”) alike, as the price surged from $18.84 (unadjusted for a [...]
Dear Clients: We’re glad to put Q3-2023 in the rearview mirror, as the third quarter lived up to its historical billing as the weakest quarter of the year. As we’ll discuss, interest rates surged, which proved to be a headwind too strong for stocks to overcome. Nobody knows what lies ahead. On [...]
Quick Takes: Health Savings Accounts In our latest episode of Quick Takes, Kirr, Marbach’s Associate Directors of Client Service Zach Greiner, CFP® and Maggie Kamman, CFP® cover Health Savings Accounts (HSAs), the tax-advantaged accounts used to save for qualified medical expenses for individuals covered under high-deductible health plans. Learn more about all [...]
Not so shocking truth: Investors are own worst enemy Mickey Kim / September 15, 2023 In “Just think: The challenges of the disengaged mind” (Science--July 2014), Timothy Wilson, a social psychologist at the University of Virginia and colleagues studied whether participants were capable of sitting alone (and without [...]
Fitch downgrade a warning U.S. approaching a financial reckoning Mickey Kim and Roger Lee / August 18, 2023 A credit rating is used to predict the likelihood a borrower will repay its debts, on time and in full. Whether you’re an individual, company or a sovereign nation, a strong [...]
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Associate Director of Client Service |
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Current Board Member and Vice President of Sans Souci. Past president of Sans Souci and Columbus Young Professionals. Finance Mentor for Turning Point’s Dance Marathon. Leadership Bartholomew County – 2014 and Coalition for Collaborative Learning – 2015. Zach was previously a Credit Analyst and Commercial Lender for MainSource Bank and, most recently, Financial Advisor for Raymond James. Zach joined KM in 2018. |
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Associate Director of Client Service |
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Current member of Heritage Fund Bartholomew County Grants Committee and First Presbyterian Preschool Policy Board. Before joining KM in 2018, Maggie was a financial analyst at Cummins, Inc. |
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Roger Lee, CFA, CPA
Senior Research Analyst |
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Roger joined KM as a Senior Research Analyst in 2016. Prior to joining KM, he sharpened his research skills while on the investment teams of Pacific View Asset Management, the Artisan Partners Global Equity Fund, and Tradewinds Global Investors, a subsidiary of Nuveen Investments. He began his career in assurance services at Ernst & Young. Roger has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York since 2010. |
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Collin Foster, CFA
Research Analyst and Fixed Income Portfolio Manager |
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Collin joined KM as an Equity Analyst in 2015. Prior to joining KM, he worked as a credit analyst and credit manager at MainSource Bank. |
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Mickey Kim, CFA
Managing Partner, Chief Operating/Compliance Officer |
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Mickey was Senior Research Analyst at Driehaus Capital Management, a Chicago investment management firm, from 1982 to 1985. Mickey joined KM in 1986 and has been the firm’s Chief Operating Officer since 1996 and Chief Compliance Officer since 2004. |
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Mark D. Foster, CFA
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Managing Partner, Chief Investment Officer, Portfolio Manager |
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Mark was formerly associated with American Fletcher National Bank (now JP Morgan Chase, Indiana, NA) as a research analyst from 1980 to 1982 and with Merchants National Bank as a portfolio manager/research analyst from 1982 to 1984. From 1984 to 1987 he was associated with Merchants Investment Counseling Inc. as Director of Equity Strategy, directly responsible for managing approximately $200 million of equity assets. Mark joined KM in 1987 and has been the firm’s Chief Investment Officer since 1997. |
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Matt Kirr
Partner, Director of Client Service |
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Current Board Member of Heritage Fund Bartholomew County and Foundation for Youth. Past president of Foundation for Youth, the Day Nursery Foundation Board, and past vice-chairman of the Make-a-Wish Foundation of Indiana. Matt was previously a Vice President and Private Banker for Bank One, N.A. and, most recently, McDonald Financial Group. Matt joined KM in 2005. |
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Darrell H. “Kip” Wright, CFA
Partner, Portfolio Manager, Senior Research Analyst |
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Kip was a Trust Investment Manager for various banks in Iowa from 1982 through 1995, most recently with Brenton Bank, N.A., with responsibilities of overall strategy and equity selection. Kip joined KM in 1995 and is a portfolio manager and senior research analyst. |
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Colin King, CFA
Senior Research Analyst |
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Colin joined KM as an Equity Analyst in 2012. Prior to joining KM, he worked in assurance services with Ernst & Young and in business valuation with Blue & Co., both CPA firms. Colin has been a licensed Certified Public Accountant in the State of Indiana since 2012. |
