Luke is Chief Economist and Head of Asset Allocation and Quantitative Services for Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors (WTIA), a part of the M&T Bank family. Luke is also a member of WTIA’s Investment Committee.
Prior to joining Wilmington Trust in 2015, Luke was an officer and economic advisor with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. Earlier in his career, Luke worked as a senior economist at IHS Global Insight (now IHS Markit) and as an economist for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Luke holds a Ph.D. in economics from Temple University and a bachelor’s degree in economics and history from James Madison University. He is a former adjunct faculty member at Temple University and formerly served on the board of directors of the Pennsylvania Economic Association. In addition, Luke is former president of the Philadelphia Council for Business Economics, a chapter of the National Association for Business Economics.
January 26, 2021—We’re not even a month into the new year and it feels like we’ve packed in six months’ worth of news and developments. The nail-biter Senate runoff elections in Georgia were followed by horrific events at the U.S. Capitol, a second impeachment of the sitting President, the inauguration of a new president, and the inauguration of an historic vice president. The inaugurations coincided with the one-year anniversary of the first U.S.
November 30—How has the pandemic impacted inflation rates and our inflation forecast as we inch closer to a post-COVID environment? Tony is joined by Wilmington Trust Investment Advisors Chief Economist Luke Tilley for a discussion about the importance of inflation as an economic and market indicator.Please listen to important disclosures at the end of the podcast.Paragon is a portfolio analysis, risk assessment, and goal optimization tool.
October 30, 2020 — Yes, like many others we’re harkening back to James Carville’s famous statement from the 1992 election of the importance of the economy to voters. The trite expression would likely have been retired by now were it not so accurate. Yet in 2020, it comes with the caveat that this year’s recession was brought on by the most exogenous of events, a global pandemic, and less likely to be pinned on whoever is currently at the wheel.
September 2, 2020—Last week the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve announced changes to its Statement on Longer-Run Goals and Monetary Policy Strategy. That official statement, first adopted in 2012 and only modified slightly in years since, is an important guidepost for markets, as it formally establishes how the Fed interprets the mandate given by Congress.
July 31, 2020—As we head into the weekend, Congress is facing some self-imposed deadlines and increasing pressure to pass a new fiscal stimulus package to support the still-weak economy. The most often cited technical deadline is today, July 31, the official end date of the $600 per week boost to unemployment insurance (U/I) recipients.
