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MarketScape: Navigating Rising Rates, War and Inflation
A flailing bond market amid ongoing geopolitical chaos has tightened investor focus on the potential impact to growth. Chief Investment Strategist Jim McDonald examines the current turbulent environment how we’re positioned in its wake.
Market Outlooks
Quarterly Report: The War to End All Wars
The first quarter of 2022 brought violence that rocked communities – and markets – internationally. We look at what aftershocks may still be yet to come.
Market Outlooks
MarketScape: What the Fed’s Inflation Fight Means for Investors
The Federal Reserve commenced what may evolve into an aggressive attack on inflation, starting last week with the first rate hike since 2018.
Market Outlooks
2022 Outlook: 2 x 2 Investing Grid from Our Investment Experts
This insight has been created to highlight the most important issues facing investors, share insights from our current research, and help you make better investment decisions as we enter 2022. It has been compiled by our investment leaders and draws on the work of our global team.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Outcome-Based Investing Guide
This piece is approved to use with clients.
When investors focus too closely on investment performance, they can lose sight of their goals and instead focus myopically on beating the benchmark. Enter Outcome-Based strategies, which seek to provide investment outcomes that fit the profile of common investment goals. That way you can match your portfolio’s outcomes with your goals. Here's our overview of how Outcome-Based Investing can fit within your financial planning.
Retirement
Income Comparison: Two Approaches for Retirement
Retirees have different needs from their portfolios, so you might expect a portfolio’s investment strategy to be aligned with those needs. Although the income approach isn’t always preferred, new research shows it can be a viable alternative to a total return approach.
Investing Ideas
Guide to ESG Investing
Even through the downturn in early 2020, you may have noticed clients still considering investments in line with their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) values. Our four-step guide provides a framework for discussing sustainable investing as part of your financial planning process.