Results of Annual Semaphore PE Industry Confidence Survey

The Semaphore Confidence Survey respondents are truly prescient. If America had only listened to our results last year it would have saved the American people over a Billion dollars in advertisements and political machinations in the just concluded presidential...

Beach Blanket Bingo?

Spring has finally made an appearance to New England after a long winter. Hot summer days spent languishing at the beach; margaritas by the pool or skimming on the lake in a new boat are moving their way to the front of everyone’s minds. No one thinks of stifling days...

Zombie Funds

Apocalyptic Future or Salvation? A few days ago Luisa Beltran of PE Hub asked whether and what we should call the now popular appellation “Zombie Funds”. I responded to her with the following: “Here at Semaphore we call them “clients”. No need for a pejorative...

Time To Take Semaphore’s Annual Confidence Survey

Do you expect to make more personal compensation next year than this year? Feeling more confident or less confident in the President’s Economic team as we left government shutdown and the most recent Fiscal Cliff behind? Thoughts on your boss and competitors? Annually...

Semaphore’s 2019 Surprising Survey Responses

I’m not surprised very often. I have to admit to being shocked by some of our results this year. This is labeled a Confidence Survey. Other than in isolated cases (mostly about our politicians and their institutions) you have been supremely confident these past eleven...

Semaphore’s 2020 Confidence Survey Results Are In!

Semaphore’s 2020 Confidence Survey Highlights “Bubble, baby!” This was my favorite economic analysis comment in this year’s 12th Semaphore Confidence Survey. You have opinions! In our dozen years of surveying the confidence of our industry, personal abilities,...