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Active/Passive Management
Advisor Perspectives: The Dawn of a New Active-Equity Era
Is the market environment turning favorable for active equity managers? It seems a strange question to ask in the midst of a pandemic and heightened market volatility, but history tells us that it is during just such turbulent times that active managers excel. There is accumulating evidence that market conditions are growing more attractive for showcasing stock-picking skills.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Lessons in Difficult Times
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Even in the best of times, investing can be challenging. Ryan Murphy, Morningstar Investment Management head of Decision Sciences, discusses how, in difficult times, it can be helpful for investors to take pause.
Sustainable Investing
Remember the environmental
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Even as coronavirus impacts our lives, we can't ignore the long-term consequences of climate change.
Behavioral Finance
How to Address Recency Bias with Clients
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Behavioral Finance – Actionable Insights for advisors to help investors battle biases, avoid chasing returns, buying yesterday’s winners, and extrapolating a string of short-term wins indefinitely into the future
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
The Importance of Avoiding Big Losses
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The Best Way to Make Money, Is to Not Lose It — This post examines the claim that minimizing losses is more important to the ultimate success of an investment plan than maximizing gains.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Taking the Long View
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Short-Term Views May Fall Short for Goals-Based Investing: The risk to both retail and professional investors is tinkering and tweaking portfolios in response to short-term “noise” and recent performance. The primary objective for investors with long-term goals should be to achieve their goals on time. Long-term goals require a longer-term view of the markets and risks.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Trailing vs Rolling Returns
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Redefining the Conversation about Returns: Help investors keep their "eyes on the prize", or that long-term goal, while helping them to avoid getting caught up in the fixating of chasing short-term returns or 'beating the market'.
Active/Passive Management
Turbulent times call for a little ballast
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And investors may find some by including a balanced approach in their portfolios.
Behavioral Finance
Focused expertise
There have been many restrictions placed on the normal rhythms of life in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The interactions we typically take for granted such as going to restaurants, spending time with friends, working out at the gym, and traveling on vacation have all been curtailed in an effort to tame the pandemic.
Behavioral Finance
The Five Stages of a Market Crisis
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A process similar to the "five stages of grief" can be seen in market crises, including the current one.