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High Yield: Five Takeaways for the Months Ahead
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From trade wars and Brexit to central bank posturing and recessions, there is no shortage of risks facing today’s markets. As we consider high yield in the context of this turbulent environment, there are five takeaways we think are worth considering in the months ahead.
Fixed Income Insights
Rx for high-SALT investors: municipal bonds
Municipal bonds can be beneficial, particularly in high-tax states.
Behavioral Finance
Giving advice that sticks
The numbers aren’t pretty. According to a 2016 study conducted by Northwestern Mutual, 62% of Americans do not have a financial advisor of any kind. And while not getting any advice is inadvisable, the numbers are bleak even within the cohort who are paying a professional.
Market Outlooks
Deep Dive: 2019 - The year to leave the party?
Join Sophie Antal Gilbert, Head of Business Solutions at Russell Investments and Erik Ristuben, Russell Investments Chief Investment Strategist, as they share their market outlooks for 2019. Listen as they discuss the unique risks and opportunities associated with late cycle investing.
Market Outlooks
Bell bottoms we can dig. But a V bottom we can REALLY dig.
As we wait on the overdue return of bell bottoms to a position of fashion prominence, our attention turns to a more important, and potentially more timely, bottom – a V bottom in the stock market.
Market Outlooks
Strategas Insight: Is the Long Cycle at a Crossroads?
Read the newest Strategas Insights for insight on earnings, data, macro, and other key factors affecting the US economy in the near term.
Market Outlooks
What investors can expect as key decisions affecting markets await
In this Q&A, Roger Aliaga-Díaz, Vanguard chief economist, Americas, discusses the potential short- and long-term market impacts of specific policy debates that could play out in the weeks ahead.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor: Does the Economy Predict Stock Returns?
Investors, economists and the media spend an enormous amount of time and energy trying to forecast the economy. The idea is that forecasting economic growth will give us an idea of where the stock market is headed. Surprisingly, no predictive relationship exists between current economic conditions and the current stock market.
Behavioral Finance
4 psychological reasons investors buy
Mike Gagala of Russell Investments walks through the four psychological reasons investors buy, from strongest to weakest.