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Do fund flows affect market prices?
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Is there a statistical relationship between fund flows and market price moves? Portfolio Manager Aneet Chachra evaluates and quantifies the linkage between equity fund flows and simultaneous price moves in the S&P 500® Index.
Regulatory Education
William Blair CE Credits - Gain Actionable Insights Today
To learn is to be empowered. We’re excited to offer continuing education (CE)-accredited courses to enhance your knowledge and perspective. Watch our on-demand courses and start earning credit today.
Client Experience
Client experience for the modern financial professional
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Practice management expert Lindsay Troxell provides actionable steps to help financial professionals take charge of their client experience, or CX.
Behavioral Finance
Direct Indexing and the IKEA Effect
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The “IKEA effect” describes a cognitive bias that happens when people put in some form of labor to complete a project or finish a creation. Direct indexing won’t solve the behavior gap, but it has the potential to create better investor behaviors by allowing investors to play a larger role in the portfolio-building process.
Behavioral Finance
Market Perspective: There are No Rewards Without Risk
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2022 reminded investors of the risk from investing, but none of this makes losses palatable. As the old axiom goes, “there are no rewards without risk.” Here's perspective from Marta Norton, CIO, Americas, Morningstar Investment Management LLC.
Investing Ideas
As ETFs Boom, Trading Strategies Matter in a Volatile Market
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Capital markets haven’t been an easy road for investors to navigate in 2022, due to a bear market, red-hot inflation and rising correlations that have hampered diversification. Traditional safe havens for long-term investors have struggled too, with cash and Treasuries facing a rising-rate environment alongside historically high levels of market volatility. This uncertainty is one of the reasons behind what could be a record-breaking year in trading volume for exchange-traded funds (ETFs) due to their ability to provide investors with access to a wide variety of market sectors, attractive liquidity and low fees. In addition, many investors are using this vehicle for its tax-loss-harvesting properties as 2022 draws to a bumpy close. All of these benefits have led to a flurry of activity within ETF trading, with one sector in particular— actively managed ETFs—seeing a notable surge in popularity.