Welcome to Investment Insights

Oct 3, 2024

I believe Introductions are in Order

Hello, great to meet you! My name is Nicholas Scibilia, but please call me Nick. I am the Chief Investment Officer at WNY Asset Management and the author of our newsletter. You can always find bios on myself and the rest of our staff on our website. For the record, those bios lean toward the technical and academic, the “fun stuff” is on our Facebook page (our employee Sneak Peeks). My quick spiel is that since I was 15 and started working at a well-known, local Hot Dog chain, I have been fascinated with saving, investing, and the financial markets. While studying at the University at Buffalo, I gained a particular interest in macro-economics. After graduation and over the following 15+ years in the banking industry I found myself enamored by the inner workings of our banking system, funding mechanisms and the flow of capital throughout our economy. I love to read about economic history, look at charts, and learn something new. New information allows for a (re)evaluation of views, which then requires putting that knowledge to work. This “process” reflects the Air Force fighter pilot process known as an OODA loop (Observe, Orient, Decide, Act). I believe this is essential to managing a modern portfolio. Constant vigilance over your investments is what WNY Asset Management offers and what I love doing.

It is my honor and pleasure to be able to serve you in this capacity, write to you quarterly, and to tell you more about who we are, what we are doing, and why we are doing it. I hope you find this newsletter enjoyable!


For 30 years WNY Asset Management has been committed to bringing you customized investment strategies to meet your individual financial goals. We focus on building trust by delivering growth and prosperity to our most important asset, which is you. We strive for clear communication and transparency in our operations. In addition to meeting with your Advisor and checking in on us with social media, via Facebook and X (formerly Twitter), we have decided to publish a Quarterly newsletter. We will cover a wide range of topics and provide you with insights into our Staff, Office, Investments, and/or other items we find noteworthy. Not every publication will be the same format, but we hope each one will be interesting and enjoyable.

Our years of experience has taught us one thing when it comes to money: to live comfortably, maintain our standard of living, and enjoy what’s ahead in life, we need to make investing a priority. History teaches us that we can rarely grow our wealth in any meaningful way without investing and we cannot invest if we do not save. The way that our financial system is structured, we strongly believe that individuals should not attempt to hide from inflation, but instead BUY inflation through investments in assets that benefit from its existence.