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Allocation Views
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The Franklin Templeton Investment Solutions team continue to anticipate that the cumulative effect of monetary policy tightening will have a dampening effect on economic activity.
Fixed Income Insights
Fixed Income Insights: Key Convictions 1Q23
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Market insights at a glance. On the heels of a turbulent 2022, valuations for fixed-income have not been this attractive in a long time.
Market Outlooks
4Q 2022 Disruptor Series: The Future of Energy, Part II
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The renewable energy transition won’t be linear, and it won’t be smooth—reinventing a global energy system in just 20 to 30 years is a monumental task. In the latest webcast, The Future of Energy, Part II, AB Chief Market Strategist Rick Brink and an expert panel turn the focus to the massive investment implications from reengineering a century-and a-half-old energy system. Watch the latest from the AB Disruptor Series as our panel of energy experts zero in on critical issues in the energy story.
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
A rough year in muni markets, yet reasons for optimism
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While 2022 was a challenging year for the muni-bond market, 2023 is setting up for more positive momentum, according to Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Municipal Bond Director Ben Barber. Read the team’s views on the year ahead.