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Portfolio Construction Insights
Optimizing Performance and Mitigating Volatility
In this edition of Envestat, we’re taking another look at the portfolio performance and examining outliers to determine what may be driving either positive performance or underperformance.
Market Outlooks
Back to School: Answers to our Most Frequently Asked Questions
Read the full commentary for insight on earnings, data, macro, and other key factors affecting the US economy.
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.
Client Life Events
Making special needs your business
The disabilities and special needs community is large, underserved and has buying power. Voya wants you to feel confident to expand your practice into this overlooked area and bring enduring, long-lasting value to the special needs community.
Client Life Events
Tips for interacting with people with disabilities
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This guide offers tips on interacting with people who have various special needs and disabilities.
Client Life Events
A Question of Special Needs: How Much Do We Need to Fund a Special Needs Plan?
Unabridged white paper covering the multitude of considerations for funding a special needs plan.
Client Life Events
Beneficiary Planning Case Study
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Naming a loved one with special needs as a beneficiary could have an unintended impact on their eligibility for government benefits.
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Government Benefits Guide
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An easy-to-follow roadmap to government benefits for special needs planning and tips on how to incorporate those benefits into your strategy.
Client Life Events
Special Needs Planning Checklist
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Confidently checking all of the boxes means individuals with special needs and caregivers can plan for a better future.
Market Outlooks
Strategas Insight: The "Earnings Recession" that Wasn't
Although nothing new, questions do persist about the long cycle’s durability. A cursory look at recent headlines from the financial press might leave one believing that the worst is upon (and even ahead), as opposed to behind us. However, these headlines diverge from the strength of the underlying economic data which suggest a slowing, but still growing economy.
Market Outlooks
Strategas Insight: Here’s to Ten More Years
Throughout the second half of last year, we highlighted a growing concern over the double-barreled risk of potential policy errors on both monetary and trade fronts. Indeed, data in 1Q2019 has softened.