Alta Insights
Insights is The Alta Group’s quarterly newsletter, offering timely perspectives on the biggest issues impacting the equipment finance industry. Every issue features original content from Alta advisors as well as contributions from trusted sources worldwide.
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Alta Insights Newsletter: July 2025
Is stagflation becoming a real threat in 2025? Alta co-CEO Valerie L. Gerard breaks down the economic warning signs and what they mean for equipment finance leaders. Learn why today’s mix of inflation, slowing growth, and labor market shifts demands a fresh look at portfolio strategy—and what you can do to prepare. Read the article. The Alta … Read more
Top of Mind: Tariffs
Only one quarter into the year, many of the dynamics we discussed in our 2025 Insights report have moved from future possibilities to current realities. The sweeping global tariff action sparked by last week’s White House announcement poses an unprecedented disruption to the equipment finance industry. Alta’s top leadership offers perspective on how this could … Read more
The Alta Group 2025 Insights
At its outset, 2024 was expected to be a year of slower growth. While growth was somewhat uneven throughout the year, the long-term trend was positive. Much of the year was a waiting game, as uncertainty about the outcome of the U.S. elections and the direction of the Federal Reserve’s action on interest rates caused … Read more
Alta Advisors to Speak at ELFA Convention
What challenges are you wrestling with as we approach the end of 2024? We’d welcome the opportunity to discuss them with you at the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association’s 63rd ELFA Annual Convention in Austin later this month. Contact us to set up an appointment Alta advisors to speak at ELFA Convention Two leaders from The … Read more
Championing Equipment Finance within Banks
The Monitor 100 rankings published last month revealed what we predicted in our 2024 Insights report: banks have significantly pulled back their role in equipment finance as a result of the fallout of the bank failures of spring 2023. But as Alta’s Rick Remiker notes, the equipment finance business line holds important long-term value for banks and is worth defending.
Essential Intelligence for a Changing Industry
From the global energy transition to the advent of artificial intelligence, today’s equipment finance leaders must chart a path forward amid a rapidly changing world. The Alta Group’s global team of highly experienced advisors stays at the forefront of the issues that will drive this industry’s future.
Alta’s 2024 Insights on the Trends Shaping the Equipment Finance Industry
Equipment finance companies entered 2023 with a mix of confidence and trepidation. Many companies were bullish at the end of 2022, with some reporting record business growth as end-user customers accelerated their equipment purchases before inflation increased the underlying cost of the equipment. But with inflation remaining stubbornly high and predictions of a looming recession … Read more
Three Decades of Equipment Leasing Expertise
From 30 years of industry service, fresh pearls of wisdom This year, The Alta Group celebrates three decades of steadfast service to the global equipment leasing and finance industry. In wedding traditions, the 30th anniversary is “the year of the pearl.” The lustrous pearl, created by the long-living oyster, symbolizes the qualities of abiding commitment – … Read more
Business Assessment Practice Brings on a Seasoned Leader
Business Assessment Practice Brings on a Seasoned Leader Gary LoMonaco, a director who has worked with The Alta Group since 2021, now leads the consultancy’s Business Assessment Practice, which can help clients with pre-acquisition due diligence, ongoing operational assessments, lender due diligence and other efforts. LoMonaco brings considerable experience in credit, due diligence and business operations … Read more
Alta’s 2023 Insights on Where We Are, What’s Ahead and What to Do
Where Are We Today? Even while anticipating a recession in 2023 and knowing that America’s pandemic support programs were expiring, many equipment finance companies were bullish in late 2022, reporting strong business growth, although with some trepidation about the year to come. Fortunately, the pandemic downturn didn’t plunge our industry into recession, largely because there … Read more