report by BlackRock
Results for ""
Leveraging Technology & Data
Benefits of Account Aggregation for Today’s Investor
This piece is approved to use with clients.
Investors today have very complex financial lives. It is not uncommon for an individual or couple to have bank checking accounts, savings accounts, retirement accounts (401k, 403b, Roth IRA’s), investment accounts, etc., spread across multiple institutions, multiple platforms and multiple advisors. This situation makes securing a comprehensive financial plan difficult.
Sustainable Investing
Impact: Driving positive environmental and social results
We drive impact through our investing practices across asset classes. Our strategies help channel capital to areas that address societal needs and environmental issues.
Sustainable Investing
How We Invest In Farmland: An introduction to Nuveen’s global agricultural sustainability approach
This introduction describes Nuveen’s sustainable farmland investing policies and procedures. It is intended to complement our Farmland Sustainability Annual Report, which documents our progress in meeting the PRI Farmland Guidelines.
Sustainable Investing
Fourth annual responsible investing survey
Responsible investing (RI) is most attractive as a strategy for higher performance by managing risk among high-net-worth investors. There has been a 200% increase in RI conversations between advisors and investors over the past year.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor: Why Invest Now? A Tale of Three Investors
This piece is approved to use with clients.
“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.
Manager & Investment Selection
Strategy Series: Strategy Preference Can Indicate Expected Stock Market Return
Rather surprisingly, the equity strategy framework can provide an estimate of current expected stock market returns. This is accomplished by measuring the recent investor response to each strategy, which, it turns out, captures the deep behavioral currents driving market returns. The resulting information is useful when managing equity market exposure.
Behavioral Finance
Keeping Emotions in Check – A Historical Guide to Market Volatility
This piece is approved to use with clients.
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.
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
Investor Interest in Responsible Investing Soars
Advisors are recommending responsible investing less but assets are rising. Read more about the trends in the impact space in this report from Nuveen.
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.
Leveraging Technology & Data
Changes Ahead: How Technology Integration Can Scale Your Business
Advisory firms who leverage advanced tech integration, have a bigger book-of-business, generate more financial plans, and have more time to spend with clients. John Yackel of Envestnet and Michael Wilson of First Citizen Bank sit down to discuss.