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Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Taking the Long View
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Short-Term Views May Fall Short for Goals-Based Investing: The risk to both retail and professional investors is tinkering and tweaking portfolios in response to short-term “noise” and recent performance. The primary objective for investors with long-term goals should be to achieve their goals on time. Long-term goals require a longer-term view of the markets and risks.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Trailing vs Rolling Returns
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Redefining the Conversation about Returns: Help investors keep their "eyes on the prize", or that long-term goal, while helping them to avoid getting caught up in the fixating of chasing short-term returns or 'beating the market'.
Client Experience
The Pain Index - A Better Measure of Risk
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Conversations with investors about risk is often muddled with industry jargon they often find unrelatable. Redefine the risk conversation to better align with the way investors think about risk-- the pain of losing money.
Fixed Income Insights
The Dangers in High Yield Bonds & CLOs
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Worth the Risk? Investors in this space have always emphasized higher levels of income or growth rather than capital preservation. While these investments are often termed “speculative,” are investors truly aware of the amount of risk in these asset classes?
Fixed Income Insights
Chasing Yield
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The Dangers and Pitfalls of Fixed Income in a Low-Yield World
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: What do Valuations Typically do in the aftermath of Bear Markets?
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The broad equity market as measured by the S&P 500 index has rebounded sharply off the March 23 lows gaining 41.7% (price basis) as of this writing (3/23/20 to 7/08/20).
Fixed Income Insights
The Dire Outlook for Bonds in the Wake of COVID-19
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Over the coming decade or two, bonds are unlikely to fulfill their dual role of income and capital preservation. Bond investors will be forced to choose between income or capital preservation, and there is a good chance they could end up with neither.
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: Why Sustainability is having a “Good Crisis”
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Sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) are the new buzz words in investing but – despite their popularity – they are often poorly understood.
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: Municipal Market’s Swift Recovery Overshadows Tailwinds
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One thing is for certain, there has been no lack of conversation surrounding the shape of the recovery across both equity and fixed income markets.
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: Recession Now Official; New Bull Market Emerges
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In my Viewpoints commentary from mid-March, we were in the throes of a record selloff with a drop in asset prices across all asset classes. The COVID-19 pandemic was firmly entrenched in the northeast United States and spreading quickly.
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: Promising sub-industries in a Post-Covid-19 World
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It’s no secret the world has gone crazy and there will be many rippling effects across the economy, many of which we can already measure as analysts pump out article after article about record-breaking indicators – often causing more fear than anything else.
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: Municipal Markets: No Height Requirement, but a Strong Stomach is Advised
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The municipal bond market can be aptly described as a rollercoaster ride over the past several months. This applies to both the movement of yields and the emotional/mental toll it took upon participants.