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Portfolio Construction Insights
Risk Speedometer: Easing off the brake
In January, the 1-month risk speedometer continued to remain below its 5-year average, recording a score of –0.61 and landing slightly above the 25th percentile of rankings. Similarly, based on the 3- and 12-month speedometers, the appetite for risk remained low.
Sustainable Investing
Sustainability: The future of investing
We discuss key themes driving transformation in sustainable investing and explain why the future of investing is sustainable.
Alternative Investments
Don't Judge a Private Equity Fund by its Number
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At Barings, contrary to popular belief, we believe that identifying high-quality opportunities in emerging and diverse private equity managers can deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns to investors.
Manager & Investment Selection
The six key components for choosing an index asset manager
Are all index asset managers the same? Learn what separates the best managers from the rest of the industry.
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.
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.
Goals/Needs-Based Investing
Vanguard Advisor's Alpha
This Vanguard Research Insight piece explains why, when adding value is the goal, advisors may be better served by changing their performance benchmark from the market’s return to the returns that investors might achieve on their own, without professional guidance.
Alternative Investments
Alternative Investments: Myths & misconceptions
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A lot of misunderstanding surrounds alternative investments. Some investors still think of them as high-risk, exotic funds reserved for ultra-high-net-worth individuals and institutions. However the reality is that alternatives have a place in nearly every portfolio.
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.