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For the market, an unpleasant, but not unexpected, September and October
We just closed the books on a tough two months for the market, with the S&P 500 Index (S&P 500) off 3.8% in September and off 2.8% in October.
Behavioral Finance
Have the Rules of Investing Changed?
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Without a doubt, the ongoing global pandemic has us re-imagining many aspects of our day-to-day life. But should investors change how they think about investing or what they can expect from their portfolios? Marta Norton, CIO for the Americas, talks about finding opportunities, protecting on the downside, and how we bring the two together when building portfolios.
Behavioral Finance
Never Waste a Good Crisis
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With so many of us Americans working and learning from home during the pandemic, it led us to ask, “How are we doing investing from home?” Here we’ll offer a few pro tips for making the most of this unusual time.
Market Outlooks
Applying Behavioral Finance in Emotionally Charged Times | A 2-Part Webinar Series
Applying Behavioral Finance in Emotionally Charged Times | A 2-Part Webinar Series
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Weekly Wire: Quarter-end Q&A 3Q2020
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Tim Holland, CFA, Global Investment Strategist, asks and answers three top-of-mind questions as investors receive their quarterly statements and reflect on the past quarter:
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Sometimes, it’s all about expectations
Sometimes in life it’s not so much what you do, it’s what you do relative to what the world expects of you, like Lloyd Christmas in Dumb & Dumber, totally redeeming himself in the eyes of Harry Dunne when he trades their van “straight up, to a kid in town” for a moped that gets 70 MPGs
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A New Monetary Policy
Last Thursday, while almost 24 million Americans were gearing up to watch President Donald Trump’s Republican National Convention speech and the literal fireworks that followed, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell gave an historic speech of his own that sent rockets around the monetary policy world.
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Focus on Equities: Taking the Long View
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Following a severe sell-off in the first quarter, global equity markets rebounded in the second quarter. Any number of scenarios could play out—how do we approach uncertainty?