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A Close Look At the Value of your Financial Advisor
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Envestnet outlines three key reasons why investors who work with professional financial advisors can increase the probability of achieving their goals more than do-it-yourself investors.
Investing Ideas
Strategas Insight: Handicapping the Outlook for US-Sino Trade Negotiations
Market pundits have doubted this bull market every step of the way. Each pullback put into evidence that the cycle had reached its endgame; each recovery off the lows furthered the disequilibrium caused by monetary malfeasance. And yet, not more than two weeks ago the market stood as high as it ever has.
Investing Ideas
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.
Investing Ideas
Navigating Change in China
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Barings’ Global Head of Equities, Ghadir Cooper, assesses the transformation of China’s economy, and explains why investors should be encouraged by the country’s decisive policy actions.
Retirement
next: Millennial magnet - Attract and retain the largest generation in the U.S. workforce
In our second issue of next, we discuss how some of the factors may affect your role as a fiduciary in building effective retirement plans, including the effect changing interest rates may have on target date funds.
Retirement
5 questions about securities lending in DC
Today, with new regulations and greater transparency since the financial crisis, securities lending activity has reached its highest level in a decade with more than $19 trillion in assets available for lending globally.
Investing Ideas
Combining Factors to Target Specific Investment Outcomes
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A white paper that explores using a factor-based approach to portfolio construction. By combining factor exposures, investors can create a "core" equity portfolio and by adjusting the factor allocations can tailor their portfolios to their own particular investing style/desired outcome.
Investing Ideas
Strategas Insight: Give a little, get a little
Read the full commentary for insight on earnings, data, macro, and other key factors affecting the US economy in the near term.
Retirement
Retirement saving: Save more or take more risk?
Defined contribution plan sponsors need to help their participants manage two significant challenges: building an appropriate asset allocation and ensuring sufficient savings.
Investing Ideas
Strategas Insight: Thoughts on the Current Market
As 2018 comes to a close and we move into the new year, the stock market has hit some turbulence just as clients are receiving annual account statements and paying more attention to their financial health. How should advisors respond to their clients’ concerns? We feel it comes down to a few fundamental questions.