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Fixed Income Insights
Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Positive investor sentiment buoys yields
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U.S. Treasury yields rose last week as investor sentiment improved, led by longer maturities. After a soft start due to weak U.S. manufacturing data and geopolitical concerns, market sentiment was boosted by improved prospects for Brexit and a sense of easing tensions in Hong Kong and U.S./China trade talks.
Fixed Income Insights
Distressed Debt: Seeking Opportunity in Choppy Waters
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Stuart Mathieson, Head of Barings’ Global Special Situations group, and Bryan High, Co-Portfolio Manager of the strategy, discuss how the macro environment is impacting their outlook, and where they're seeing distressed debt opportunities today.
Fixed Income Insights
The Federated Approach to Managing Fixed-Income Investments
Federated believes that optimum results in fixed-income products are best achieved through a traditional value-based approach, using fundamental analysis with teams focused by sector to extract value from each step.
Investing Ideas
3 things to know about IPOs
Client Portfolio Manager Jordan Stuart discusses how the naturally volatile nature of the initial public offering (IPO) process represents part of a healthy movement of capital into new, more productive growth channels that drive economic opportunity for individuals, companies and countries.
Fixed Income Insights
Fixed Income: Upending the Conventional Approach
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Michael Freno, Head of Global Markets, shares his view on where value can still be found in fixed income, despite the uncertain current environment—and why investors may need to look beyond traditional indexes in high yield, investment grade and emerging markets debt.
Investing Ideas
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.
Investing Ideas
Cluster Cities: A Chinese Experiment in the Future of Urbanisation
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China’s success in growing city clusters of previously unimaginable size is dependent on three key factors: continued rural-to-urban migration, planning that spans disparate administrative areas, and massive infrastructure investment.
Investing Ideas
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.
Fixed Income Insights
Private Credit: How Supply/Demand Dynamics are Shaping the Landscape
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Ian Fowler, Co-Head of the North American Private Finance Group, discusses the dynamics of each middle market segment—including upper-end style shift resulting from competitive pressures—and explains why the traditional middle is the sweet spot.
Human Capital
Managing NextGen Financial Professionals
In this paper we seek to acknowledge the truths and dispel the myths around the stereotypes attached to Millennials. By understanding the drivers of Millennials’ preferred work styles and expectations, we believe advisors will be better equipped to manage them.