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Streaming Income - Assessing Today’s Private Credit Landscape
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Private credit markets have seen an exponential increase in investor demand over the last 10 years. But with competition fierce and the cycle maturing, what’s next? Barings’ Eric Lloyd talks about where he sees value today and how risks from Brexit to rate hikes are impacting the asset class.
Investing Ideas
Streaming Income - CLOs & Leveraged Loans: Perception vs. Reality
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Leveraged loans and collateralized loan obligations (CLOs) are back in the headlines with the market’s recent bout of volatility. How prepared are these credit instruments to weather the next economic storm? Barings’ Matthew Natcharian and Adrienne Butler weigh in.
Investing Ideas
Streaming Income - Investment Grade Credit: Rates, BBBs and ABS
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IG investors today are grappling with mixed signals from the yield curve, a bulging BBB-rated universe and the continued expansion of ABS markets. David Nagle, a 30+ year veteran of fixed income markets helps to put today’s most recent developments in perspective.
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.
Investing Ideas
Streaming Income - Climbing High Yield’s Wall of Worry
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Global high yield markets face a number of risks, from trade wars to rising rates. Yet, these markets have continued to scale such a ‘wall of worry’ for the last decade. Should we expect more of the same, or are we nearing a turning point in the cycle?
Active/Passive Management
MYTH: Active Performs Better in Certain Market Segments
When it comes to active management, believing that active managers generally perform better in certain market segments is a myth, not a reality.
Active/Passive Management
Investor Education: Learn About Active and Index Fund Investing
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Help your clients get a better understanding of the differences between index investing and active investing, and the merits of each approach.
Sustainable Investing
Jim Patrick on the Future of Impact
Jim Patrick provides his insights on the future of impact investing at the Envestnet Advisor Summit.
Sustainable Investing
Societal Impact vs. Financial Return: A Case of “Either/Or” No More
Many investors who find impact investing potentially appealing have at the same time struggled with a notion that investing for the “greater good” will always be “concessionary,” that is, accompanied by some loss of financial performance.
Active/Passive Management
Making the Implicit Explicit: A Framework for the Active-Passive Decision
Vanguard's new active-passive decision-making framework helps investors focus on the factors that matter most.
Behavioral Finance
Trust and Financial Advice
Vanguard researchers break down strategies advisors can use to build greater trust with their clients.
Investing Ideas
Vanguard's Principles for Investing Success
Vanguard's guidance for investors is centered on four core principles: Define clear goals, choose diversified portfolio holdings that balance risk and potential reward, minimize cost, and stay disciplined over the long term.