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Weekly Investment Commentary: Sentiment is slowly improving, but risks remain high
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Stocks started the week in a positive direction before dropping sharply on Thursday and Friday. We think this sort of volatility is likely to persist for some time.
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Weekly Wire: Pick a letter, any letter
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We got our first look at Q1 Gross Domestic Product last week, and as expected, it wasn’t pretty. While the Q1 GDP number is subject to revision, it showed the economy contracted (4.8%) Q to Q.
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Weekly Market Snapshot: May 1, 2020
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Read the Weekly Market Snapshot to stay up-to-date with stock markets and sectors, bond market returns and financial news for the week.
Behavioral Finance
Win the day
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As a child, my father (himself a financial advisor) had a single obsession—paying off our house.
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Trends in Advisor Behavior During Market Volatility - Week of April 27, 2020
Is this the new normal? The past several weeks have seen a consistent set of data trends.
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Remote Learning Resources for Parents
Envestnet Institute in Classrooms to Offer Critical Skills Education
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Weekly Wire: How can oil be worth less than nothing?
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They say if you live long enough you really do see everything. Well, last week investors saw something they had never seen before – the price of a barrel of oil going for negative $37, at least based on the May 2020 futures contract on West Texas Intermediate (WTI).
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How will dividend stocks respond to COVID-19?
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The volatility fueled by the coronavirus outbreak is reminiscent of prior periods of market stress in which investors worried that dividend-paying companies would decrease or suspend their payments. Although 2020 could prove to be the most challenging year for dividend payers since the financial crisis, the sector make-up and impact of dividend cuts should be different. Additionally, many companies appear financially healthy and therefore able to maintain, increase or initiate dividends, despite the uncertainty. Our outlook for dividend sustainability is thus cautiously optimistic.
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How A Financial Advisor Can Help You Achieve Financial Wellness
Today’s technology empowers you to take a more active role in your finances and helps your advisor identify and address the opportunities and roadblocks you’re facing based on the full scope of your financial life.
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Muni bond myths and realities: Bonds are trading, leverage isn’t bad, and widespread defaults don’t look likely
Following a long, unprecedented period of stability and price appreciation, municipal bond funds experienced equally unprecedented volatility and outflows in early March as the COVID-19 pandemic, broader market selloff and economic uncertainty led investors to hit the panic button. Here we address some myths and offer insight into our approach to the markets.