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Weekly Wire: Bizarro bonds – guaranteed to lose you money, and not just in a comic strip
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Fans of Superman – or Seinfeld – may be familiar with Bizarro World, a cubed planet far out in space that is inhabited by imperfect duplicates of Superman, Lois Lane, and their friends. In a nutshell, on Bizarro – relative to earth – up is down, hot is cold, good is bad, and beautiful is ugly.
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Weekly Wire: What did the Fed just do? Why? What comes next?
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Last week, the Federal Open Market Committee, the monetary policymaking body of the US Federal Reserve (Fed), met and announced it was lowering the Federal Funds rate by 25 bps (the first interest rate cut in more than 10 years) to a range of 2.0% to 2.25% and ending the runoff of its $3.8 trillion asset portfolio. Before we examine why the Fed took these two very important steps to support the US economy, a bit of background.
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State of the RIA Market: Special Focus on the Investor/Advisor Relationship and Advisor Technology Stack
As a valued Envestnet Institute user, we are delighted to share with you our latest report on the State of the RIA Market.
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Better, Quicker, Cheaper: AI and Big Data Create New Opportunities in the Cloud
The cloud continues to upend the software industry as it moves into areas such as AI and big data.
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Is This the End of Quantitative Tightening?
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At a time when global growth is already under close scrutiny, the threat of trade tarriffs has returned.
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Much Maligned Bank Loans Deserve a Closer Look
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Bank loans, supported by both fundamental and technical factors, appear to offer relative value despite some risks.
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Asset Allocation Viewpoints
Our Asset Allocation Viewpoints can help you have more actionable conversations with clients. Get the latest thinking from our Asset Allocation Committee—comprised of some of our most senior investment professionals—to find out what’s resonating with other intermediaries.
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Goldilocks and the Bears—Innovation, Disruption, and the End of the “Virtuous” Cycle
The low‑growth, low‑inflation, and high‑disruption world we live in today is constantly on my mind. What does this mean for us as investors in this era? As we’ve written about this before, I would highlight this analysis is like predicting the outcome of a football game at halftime. Much of this has already happened.