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Trends in Advisor Behavior During Market Volatility - Week of May 18, 2020
Last week was a return to "normal" for advisor activities. Trading volume was close to the average seen in 2019. Advisors were neutral on risk - more risky and less risky investments were both near net zero in flows.
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Weekly Wire: It’s always darkest before the dawn
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It is one thing to understand we are living through an unprecedented, pandemic driven economic downturn, and all together another to learn the US unemployment rate is 14.7% and that 20.5 million of our fellow Americans lost their jobs in April.
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Trends in Advisor Behavior During Market Volatility - Week of May 1, 2020
Last week was closer to "normal," if we define normal as 2019 and early 2018 trends.
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Weekly Wire: Pick a letter, any letter
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We got our first look at Q1 Gross Domestic Product last week, and as expected, it wasn’t pretty. While the Q1 GDP number is subject to revision, it showed the economy contracted (4.8%) Q to Q.
Behavioral Finance
Win the day
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As a child, my father (himself a financial advisor) had a single obsession—paying off our house.
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Trends in Advisor Behavior During Market Volatility - Week of April 27, 2020
Is this the new normal? The past several weeks have seen a consistent set of data trends.
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Remote Learning Resources for Parents
Envestnet Institute in Classrooms to Offer Critical Skills Education
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Global Asset Allocation Viewpoints and Investment Environment
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Pledges of fiscal spending have been quick to follow actions taken by major central banks to combat the looming impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. G-20 countries have pledged more than $5 trillion USD in stimulus through a wide range of avenues to stave off the effects on the global economy.
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Weekly Wire: How can oil be worth less than nothing?
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They say if you live long enough you really do see everything. Well, last week investors saw something they had never seen before – the price of a barrel of oil going for negative $37, at least based on the May 2020 futures contract on West Texas Intermediate (WTI).
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Transamerica: Make The Most Of Your Legacy
Using Transamerica's annuities in irrevocable trusts
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Nationwide: Relief for small businesses
In March 2020, three important pieces of legislation were signed into law in response to the novel coronavirus pandemic.