Founder, Chairman, CIO
Anton Bayer founded Up Capital Management and serves as Founder & CIO. He brings four decades of experience across every major market environment, and he authors the firm's Weekly UPdate, the original market analysis that guides how portfolios are positioned.
In 2026, as part of the firm's multigenerational succession, Anton transitioned from Chief Executive Officer to Founder & CIO, continuing to lead the firm's investment strategy while Nyle Bayer took over as CEO.
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Markets and EconomyBy any standard, the past three years were historic. It reminded me of the tech bubble that burst from 2000 to 2003, with San Jose’s Silicon Valley as the epic center. You had to live there to truly understand the financ
2022, or as I like to refer to it, “the year of three two's,” is finally coming to a close. Families across the world are getting together to celebrate the holidays, which means that the final scramble to finish shopping
The saying “Don't Fight The Feds,” or DFTF for short, has been the theme this year on Wall Street. Since March 16, when the Federal Reserve embarked on its rate hike policy, the stock market has plummeted. Mortgage inter
Despite all the challenges going on around the world, the US economic engine continues to chug forward. The Group of 7 Nations (referred to as G7 nations, which were formerly G8 until Russia was expelled in 2014) referen
Consumer sentiment hit a record low in 2022 even as unemployment stayed near historic lows. Anton Bayer looks at what earlier periods of far greater stress meant for markets.
I thought I would take a break from the exciting world of finance to focus on Thanksgiving and the many blessings we have.
Over the past 30 years, I have been fascinated by watching the many actors in our financial markets. I say actors because it all seems like one big national play complete with all the theatrical variety of comedy, thrill
The tsunami impact of shutting down the US, the world's largest economic engine, for nearly nine months in 2020, and in some cities' continual restrictions, has understandably created a tsunami wave of financial imbalanc
Now that Halloween is over, the holidays are officially started. Although Home Depot, Walmart, Target, Lowes, and every other box store thought the Christmas season started in August.
A few weeks ago I was rereading Joe Coulombe’s autobiography, Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys, when I came across this quote:
You work directly with the people making the decisions about your plan.