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Retirement
Should you save or spend your tax refund?
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This tax season, consider putting your refund toward a 529 plan.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor: Why Invest Now? A Tale of Three Investors
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“Now’s not a good time to invest,” or “I’m waiting for the right conditions” are familiar refrains we hear from investors and advisors alike. Fortunately for long-term investors who don’t take regular withdrawals from their portfolios, the sequence of returns doesn’t affect the ultimate investment outcome.
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
Keeping Emotions in Check – A Historical Guide to Market Volatility
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One of the biggest challenges in investing is to stay focused and on course. Investors must look at the markets from a historical perspective for broader context, and to better understand why it is important to stay the course during both calm and perilous markets.
Children & College Savings
How Do Summer Jobs Affect 529s and Financial Aid?
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Your teen’s summer gig can prepare them for the future — and help them save for college.
Investing Ideas
DOL Fiduciary Rule is All but Gone
In the most recent edition of Washington Insights, we discussed the latest — and likely final — chapter in the DOL fiduciary rule saga. On March 15, a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals voted to vacate (or nullify) the rule.
Behavioral Finance
Diversify by Strategy to Stay on Track
It’s important for investors to understand how different investment strategies work and how each performs under various market conditions.
Investing Ideas
Are Markets Pointing Toward a Value Resurgence?
Read the Invesco Strategy Insights white paper that summarizes historical inflection points and offers key takeaways for the future.
Investing Ideas
Market Neutral Investing: Exploring the Potential Benefits and Sources of Return
Market neutral equity strategies offer a unique style of investing and typically seek to produce attractive returns for investors regardless of the equity markets' behavior.
Investing Ideas
Getting Smart About Beta
Invesco examined two categories of smart beta strategies and analyzed how they performed over full market cycles and in different ecpnomic environments.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor: Use Needs Rather than Fear for Allocation
Risk tolerance can result in poor risk management, significant misallocation of resources and a high degree of anxiety. AthenaInvest suggests using a needs-based planning instead.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor: Look Beyond Cost For Active Management
Focus on low-cost equity mutual funds has increased dramatically in the past decade. While cost matters, mutual funds should be evaluated based on what investors get for the price they pay.