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Plan advisors: 5 topics to discuss at your year-end investment committee meeting
Curated content for RIAs.
Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto outlines five topics – including recent defined contribution developments and ideas for engaging plan participants – that advisors can discuss at upcoming year-end investment committee meetings.
Retirement
Plan Talk: Analyzing risks and opportunities in today’s plan menu lineups
Curated content for RIAs.
In this episode of Plan Talk, Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto speaks with Damien Comeaux, Senior Portfolio Strategist, about how the Portfolio Construction and Strategy (PCS) team analyzes plan menu lineups to help ensure they provide adequate diversification.
Client Relationships
Why Sick Days Matter
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Working through illness has become increasingly common in our industry, especially with the advent of remote work. Lindsay Troxell, Senior Director, Knowledge Labs® Professional Development, discusses why financial professionals tend to avoid taking sick days and how we can begin to reverse the trend.
Fixed Income Insights
Global Perspectives: Mortgage-Backed Securities – Has the Baby Gone Out with the Bathwater?
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In the latest episode of our Global Perspectives podcast series, Portfolio Manager Nick Childs and Securitized Products Analyst Tom Polus discuss the reasons why they believe mortgage-backed securities have been sold off disproportionately, and if that might be a good thing going forward.
Fixed Income Insights
Municipal Bonds: 2023 U.S. States Outlook
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Revenue above expectations, pandemic federal aid and reserves have strengthened states' financial outlook. But states will need to prepare as pandemic aid winds down and the economy slows.