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Regulatory Education
Time for an IPS Refresh: Incorporating Emerging Trends into Your Plan Design
Curated content for RIAs.
To help plan sponsors better understand how to ensure their investment policy statement (IPS) is clear and current, we spoke with renowned ERISA attorney Hon. Brad Campbell about three areas where well-intentioned but unclear or outdated IPS language can create problems.
Fixed Income Insights
June 2021 BMO Fixed Income Market Update
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U.S. GDP estimates released in May showed the economy grew 6.4% in the first quarter, unchanged from the prior estimate and modestly below expectations.
Fixed Income Insights
Market GPS: Fixed Income Perspectives
Featuring the latest quarterly insights from our investment teams:
- Rising bond yields - a validation of recovery or a challenge?
- Don’t fight the wave of rising rates, surf it.
- Harvesting higher yields in today’s bond markets.
- ESG in credit investing: themes, considerations, and implementation.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Wealth Transfer: Easy as 1, 2, 3?
The wealth transfer process is complex, with financial as well as emotional matters that must be sorted through. But financial professionals can take steps to help ensure clients and their heirs are prepared. Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto outlines what he believes are the three key steps to success: preparation, empowerment and engagement.
Fixed Income Insights
Save Should Not Mean Sacrifice
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Portfolio Manager Nick Maroutsos believes that capital preservation and attractive risk-adjusted returns are not mutually exclusive despite zero-interest rate policy across much of the developed world.
Fixed Income Insights
April 2021 Fixed Income Market Update
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We continue to observe demand for income-generating assets with additional relative value opportunities across the sector, quality and security levels.
Fixed Income Insights
Beware the ides of March
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As the first quarter draws to a close, investors should be mindful of the seasonal weakness typically seen with municipal bonds (munis) at this time of year. This seasonality is due to a confluence of factors, including an uptick in supply (versus a lack of), fewer maturing bonds and lower coupon payments – and a potential pause in industry flows as a result of investors paying their tax bills in April.
Retirement
Can I invest my IRA in this?
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Alternative assets, such as cryptocurrencies, art, private equity and more, have seen a surge in press coverage over the past decade, to the point that many of these alternative investments have become more mainstream than ever before.