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Fixed Income Insights
LIBOR Is Changing: Five Important Updates
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T. Rowe Price's working group provides an update to the plans to replace LIBOR with new alternative reference rates.
Fixed Income Insights
Currency Hedging Can Boost Yields and Reduce Volatility
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U.S.-based bond investors who hedge the currencies of foreign bonds can obtain higher yields and mitigate portfolio volatility.
Client Experience
Overconfident? Cognitively Rigid? How Investors Can Make Better Decisions by Dealing With Emotions and Biases
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Sarah Newcomb, director of behavioral science at Morningstar, Inc., discusses emotions brought on by market loss, talks about how they can affect decisions, and offers some ways to cope. Ryan Murphy, head of decision sciences at Morningstar Investment Management, discusses cognitive biases to watch out for and ways investors can make better decisions.
Client Experience
Three Ways to Retain Clients during a Crisis
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Tips for Strengthening Client Relationships
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
The Importance of Avoiding Big Losses
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The Best Way to Make Money, Is to Not Lose It — This post examines the claim that minimizing losses is more important to the ultimate success of an investment plan than maximizing gains.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Taking the Long View
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Short-Term Views May Fall Short for Goals-Based Investing: The risk to both retail and professional investors is tinkering and tweaking portfolios in response to short-term “noise” and recent performance. The primary objective for investors with long-term goals should be to achieve their goals on time. Long-term goals require a longer-term view of the markets and risks.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Trailing vs Rolling Returns
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Redefining the Conversation about Returns: Help investors keep their "eyes on the prize", or that long-term goal, while helping them to avoid getting caught up in the fixating of chasing short-term returns or 'beating the market'.
Client Experience
The Pain Index - A Better Measure of Risk
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Conversations with investors about risk is often muddled with industry jargon they often find unrelatable. Redefine the risk conversation to better align with the way investors think about risk-- the pain of losing money.
Fixed Income Insights
The Dangers in High Yield Bonds & CLOs
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Worth the Risk? Investors in this space have always emphasized higher levels of income or growth rather than capital preservation. While these investments are often termed “speculative,” are investors truly aware of the amount of risk in these asset classes?