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Long Beach has few, if any, peer credits for the $88 million of marina revenue refunding bonds it plans to price next week.

Dan Aschenbach and Namsoo Lee created Municipal Financial Solutions Associates to help utilities manage the changing economic and regulatory landscape.

The "Golden Age of Public Finance," as it was called by industry pundits, is likely to face significant changes under the Trump administration.

Compensation played a role in the departures, sources said.

Attracting more private investment to the affordable housing sector is becoming more urgent with the reintroduction of a bill in the Senate that could spur the use of private activity bonds.

The well-known muni strategist said he's pursuing "more market-related opportunities."

Some of the issuance stems from project finance largely "drying up" because of where rates are, said Jennifer Johnston, senior vice president and director of research, municipal bonds, for Franklin Templeton Fixed Income. 

Industry leaders at The Bond Buyer's Texas Public Finance event discuss how tax policy threats, tariffs, and federal budget cuts could create a new paradigm for muni borrowing costs and credit resilience.

The $350 million revenue bond issue will refund bonds sold in 2015 and finance improvements to the airline's primary maintenance facility in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

The $500 million deal was delayed after the tariff announcement rocked the markets. It has priced, but offering documents include new trade war disclosures.