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| Title: Top 5 Muni Market Insights for 2026: Discipline Drives Differentiated Results |
| Date: Friday, January 16, 2026 |
| Time: 1:00 PM Eastern Standard Time |
| Duration: 1 hour |
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The municipal market enters 2026 from a position of relative stability but opportunity will be unevenly distributed. As broad-based tailwinds fade, performance in 2026 will be driven by precision, selectivity, and discipline. Join MacKay Municipal Managers™ for an in-depth discussion of the “Top 5 Muni Market Insights for 2026” and how evolving technicals, credit dispersion, and curve dynamics may reshape portfolio outcomes. Accepted for 1 CFP / IWI / CFA CE Credit |
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David is a Portfolio Manager on the municipal bond team, focused on intermediate investment-grade municipals. He joined MacKay Shields in 2009. Prior to joining the firm, he served as Chief Investment Officer at Financial Guaranty Insurance Company. Earlier in his career, David was a Senior Portfolio Manager at Alliance Capital Management and a Municipal Strategist at Merrill Lynch & Co. He holds an AB from Brown University and an MBA from Columbia University and has been in the investment management industry since 1989. |
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Eric Kazatsky is responsible for client relationship management and business development initiatives for MacKay Municipal Managers team. Eric joined MacKay Shields in 2025. Eric’s successful experience involving municipal bonds included various aspects of the industry including sell side, buy side, a large municipal issuer. Prior to joining the firm, he served as Bloomberg Intelligence’s Head of Municipal Strategy and was responsible for creating municipal focused research for Bloomberg Terminal clients. Prior to work at Bloomberg, he served as the institutional desk strategist at Janney Montgomery Scott and municipal portfolio manager SEI Investments. At Janney, he distributed weekly research notes specifying relative value opportunities for both Janney inventory and secondary market customer sales. At SEI, he oversaw credit and portfolio management for a $3 billion separately managed account platform. Eric has a B.A. in finance and economics from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.B.A. in finance from St. Joseph’s University, and a M.S. in investment management from Temple University. He has been in the financial services industry since 2001. |
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