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Turning Client Trust into Action in a Down Market: A Six-Step Conversation
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Register today to hear AllianceBernstein Advisor Institute's (ABAI's) Ken Haman discuss key insights about human decision-making and research in behavioral finance to look at the practical challenges of managing client trust during uncertain times. Specifically, Ken will drill into: 1) How to move a client past a negative market experience to make an investment decision now, 2) Why clients can be triggered by negative information and avoid these discussions despite the need to take action to improve future outcomes, 3) A six-step conversation model that FAs can use to motivate clients to take action
Investing Ideas
Finding Stocks with Staying Power: The Quality Dimension White Paper
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Quality in stocks can be measured in different ways. Yet the characteristics of resilient companies have something in common—they tend to underpin consistent, long-term equity return potential. Over the last decade, the MSCI World Quality Index returned 12.4% annualized, outperforming the MSCI World Index (Display 1). And during past market crises, quality stocks usually fell less than the broader market, a pattern that we’ve observed over longer time periods and in both US and global stock markets.
Fixed Income Insights
The Next Generation of Fixed Income - Tax Loss Harvesting
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Taxes matter to a bond investor’s bottom line. That’s why we’ve brought a digital, high-speed solution to fixed-income active tax management. By continually optimizing separately managed accounts to identify opportunities to harvest losses and by efficiently reinvesting the proceeds in tax-favorable opportunities, automated tax management has the potential to add more than 90 basis points to after-tax returns in some years, according to our in-depth analysis.
Fixed Income Insights
US core fixed income: Better positioned going into 2023?
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Greg Wilensky, Head of U.S. Fixed Income, discusses his 2023 investment outlook, including the opportunities and risks he sees in U.S. core fixed income as we head into the new year.
Investing Ideas
The forecasters were right
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Just how good an indicator of future performance are earnings predictions? Portfolio Manager Aneet Chachra considers the historical value of forecasts, and questions whether investors can use them to help guide their investment decisions, as we look ahead to 2023.
Portfolio Construction Insights
In defense of defensive fixed income: The case for adding duration
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Senior Portfolio Strategist Lara Reinhard outlines three reasons why investors with the appropriate risk tolerance and objectives might consider adding intermediate-duration bonds back to their fixed income portfolios.
Investing Ideas
The Fed and CLOs: Well aligned?
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Portfolio Managers John Kerschner, Nick Childs, and Jessica Shill discuss why they believe collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) might be well aligned with a hawkish Fed.