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Fixed Income Insights
Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Favorable economic data push Treasury yields lower
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U.S. Treasury yields fell across the curve, as U.S. consumer price data showed a further moderation in inflationary pressures.
Market Outlooks
Weekly Investment Commentary: The importance of being earnings focused
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In the near term, we maintain our mantra that the best offense is a good defense when it comes to equity allocations.
Fixed Income Insights
Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields fall sharply on promising economic data
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U.S. Treasury yields fell across the curve to start the year.
Market Outlooks
Weekly Investment Commentary: Out with the old, in with the same old…for now
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We prefer a quality tilt in fixed income portfolios, given that the hawkish Fed continues to hike rates into a slowing economy, and the economic impact of these hikes may not be felt for 12 to 18 months.
Investing Ideas
Finding Stocks with Staying Power: The Quality Dimension White Paper
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Quality in stocks can be measured in different ways. Yet the characteristics of resilient companies have something in common—they tend to underpin consistent, long-term equity return potential. Over the last decade, the MSCI World Quality Index returned 12.4% annualized, outperforming the MSCI World Index (Display 1). And during past market crises, quality stocks usually fell less than the broader market, a pattern that we’ve observed over longer time periods and in both US and global stock markets.
Fixed Income Insights
The Next Generation of Fixed Income - Tax Loss Harvesting
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Taxes matter to a bond investor’s bottom line. That’s why we’ve brought a digital, high-speed solution to fixed-income active tax management. By continually optimizing separately managed accounts to identify opportunities to harvest losses and by efficiently reinvesting the proceeds in tax-favorable opportunities, automated tax management has the potential to add more than 90 basis points to after-tax returns in some years, according to our in-depth analysis.
Fixed Income Insights
Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields fall as the Fed hikes once more
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U.S. Treasury yields fell last week. The November U.S. CPI report showed a smaller-than-expected monthly increase.