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Fixed Income Insights
Municipal Yields Have Converged
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Over the past several weeks, yields between short- and intermediate-term Municipal Bonds have converged. This may be an opportunity for investors to significantly reduce interest rate risk while sacrificing minimal income since shorter-term bonds typically have less sensitivity to rates.
Fixed Income Insights
Neither bulls nor bears last forever
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While bull markets don’t last forever, neither do bear markets. Since 1928, the strength and duration of S&P 500® bull markets has meaningfully outweighed that of bear markets.
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Regulatory Education
Envestnet & Eversheds Sutherland Regulatory Education Program - Webinar 3
Envestnet is excited to announce our partnership with Eversheds Sutherland. As a global top 15 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides the legal advice and strategic alignment that clients need from their advisors for the best outcomes. The new SEC advice standards for broker-dealers and registered investment advisors are here, and we are dedicated to helping you prepare for the compliance impact.
Regulatory Education
Envestnet & Eversheds Sutherland Regulatory Education Program - Webinar 2
Envestnet is excited to announce our partnership with Eversheds Sutherland. As a global top 15 law practice, Eversheds Sutherland provides the legal advice and strategic alignment that clients need from their advisors for the best outcomes.
Leveraging Technology & Data
Secrets
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Never has so much personal information been readily available to the general public. It’s surprising, then, that so many financial institutions continue to treat public knowledge as a “secret.”
Regulatory Education
Envestnet & Eversheds Sutherland Regulatory Education Program - Webinar 1
Watch the webinar replays from Envestnet & Eversheds Sutherland's 3-Part Regulatory Education Program.
Fixed Income Insights
Did the Fed just go Minority Report?
We believe the Fed is taking a risk — one we hope works — in shifting from reactive to preemptive monetary policy. It was not that long ago that the Fed was more forthright about the uncertainty inherent in economic forecasting as Chairman Powell used the analogy of walking into a dark room and slowing down to avoid furniture as an analogy for the Fed’s situation. Today, they seem more certain that they know the future and aim to alter it.
Leveraging Technology & Data
Protecting what’s yours
We’ve all seen security breaches covered in the news: Equifax – at a cost of nearly $243M, Uber – resulting in $148M in combined fines, and just last year, Facebook – at a potential cost of $1.63B.
Advisor Value & Fees
Traits of great financial advisors
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You probably know by now that you’re supposed to have a financial advisor, you may just not know how to differentiate the good ones from the bad ones. We’d like to suggest the following as a checklist for helping you to find an advisor who can help you meet your financial goals and have a good time doing it.