“Our mission is to develop deep relationships, and tailored solutions for our client’s investment and tax advisory needs.”

– Mark Austin, CEO

Tailored Investment and Tax Advisory Services

Liniam Capital is a Boutique Registered Investment Advisory Firm

“In short, our mission is to trade scale for deeper relationships, and tailored solutions.” – Mark Austin, CEO

Who Do We Help

Individuals & Families

  • Managing significant savings or investment portfolios
  • Rolling over retirement assets and/or IRAs
  • Inherited portfolios
  • CPA Tax Advisory and Planning

Small & Mid-Size Businesses

  • Owner retirement, succession planning, pension trust creation, and exit strategy
  • Corporate investment management
  • Liquidity and asset sales
  • CPA Tax Advisory and Planning

Other

  • Non-Profit Organizations
  • Complex portfolio restructuring and hedging

Our Characteristics

Independent Approach

Our thinking goes beyond the standard big-box model.

Seasoned Expertise

Highly experienced team using a full suite of investment tools to enhance income, manage volatility, and preserve liquidity.

Relationship Driven

Emphasis on trust, transparency, ongoing planning, and responsive communication.

“In short, our mission is to trade scale for deeper relationships, and tailored solutions.”

– Mark Austin, CEO

Market Perspective

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Market Update June 2026

July 16, 2026

Market Update October 27th, 2025 The past few months have been very eventful with the Iran related market drawdown through March followed by the nearly unprecedented surge in April and May, driven by AI related enthusiasm. Equitymarket moves of the magnitude experienced over the past 10 weeks are almost exclusive to the initial rebound from a bear market low. The multitude of cross currents today include extreme valuation and concentration, momentum and enthusiasm for a new technology, unprecedented potential equity supply from 3 mega scale IPOs beginning this week, war and a potential energy crisis, foreign central bank intervention (Japan) and policy tightening, and inflation re-accelerating. Read our full report here

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Investment Solutions

Liniam Capital is a Minneapolis-based Registered Investment Advisor and fiduciary. We combine macro and fundamental research with a full suite of investment tools and asset classes to enhance income, manage volatility, limit downside, and preserve liquidity.

Customized Solutions

Highly customized approach structured to address client's income requirements, liquidity needs, risk tolerance and total return expectations.

Equity Premium Strategy

An active equity strategy that seeks to outperform the broad equity market over the long term, while generating superior income with less volatility.

Bond Premium Strategy

An active fixed income strategy that seeks to generate superior income and total return performance relative to the broad domestic bond market.

Absolute Return Strategy

This strategy provides investors an alternative to traditional asset allocation by allocating based on macro views and tactical horizons.

Our Team

Mark Austin

Principal, Chief Executive Officer

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Keith Hembre, CFA, CPA

Principal, Chief Investment Officer

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Mark Austin

Principal, Chief Executive Officer

Mark has worked extensively with pension funds, endowments, foundations, corporate funds, and high net worth investors in a variety of business development, client service, and product management capacities in his over 30-year career in the capital markets, Mark’s experience spans a range of asset classes, including domestic and international equity, fixed income, private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and liquid alternatives.

Prior to founding Liniam Capital, Mark was a Managing Director at North Sky Capital and has held positions at FAF Advisors/US Bank, Piper Capital Management, and Investment Advisers, Inc. He also served as the President of the North Hennepin Community College Foundation.

Mark earned his MBA from the University of St. Thomas and his B.S. from the University of Minnesota.

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Keith Hembre, CFA, CPA

Principal, Chief Investment Officer

Keith is a seasoned investment professional with more than 25 years of experience in leadership roles within the investment management industry. Prior to joining Liniam he was the Chief Economist and Investment Strategist at Nuveen Asset Management and at FAF Advisors/US Bank prior to that. In these roles he was responsible for leading the Quantitative Strategies Teams at those firms that were responsible for managing asset allocation, absolute return, equity options and index products and strategies. He has a passion for economic and market analysis, has served on the Economic Advisory Committee for the American Bankers Association and was named the most accurate economic forecaster by BusinessWeek magazine in 2007.

He holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation, a B.A. in economics from the University of Minnesota and an M.S. in economics from Baylor University, and completed the program on Investment Decisions and Behavioral Finance at Harvard University.

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