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Financial Knowledge, Investment Advice and Trading Discretion: New Research
Curated content for RIAs.
Head of Defined Contribution and Wealth Advisor Services Matt Sommer helped conduct a survey that explored the relationship between financial knowledge and the decision to seek investment advice and grant trading discretion. The results have significant implications for how financial professionals engage with clients.
Client Life Events
Lessons in Behavioral Finance: Bequest Intentions and Expectations of Older Adults
Curated content for RIAs.
You’re invited to join Janus Henderson’s lead behavioral finance research and wealth strategies expert, Matt Sommer, Ph.D., CFA, CFP, as he helps financial professionals answer three key questions about wealth transfer and how the relationship between children and parents affects bequest intentions.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Balancing Act: how will growth and inflation risks impact asset classes in the months ahead?
Is it possible to rein in inflation without choking economic growth? Which asset classes are most at risk and where can investors find opportunities? Janus Henderson’s Global Heads of Equities and Fixed Income explore portfolio strategy considerations to help identify actionable investment views for the remainder of the year.
Portfolio Construction Insights
EPISODE #2: USING PROBABILITIES TO AVOID THE LOSERS IN YOUR PORTFOLIO
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Probability plays a key role in many aspects of everyday life, yet many people fail to understand the math that guides it.
Portfolio Construction Insights
EPISODE #1: AN INTRO TO NEW AGE ALPHA
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There is a risk inside your portfolio that you are unaware of that leads to loss and you don’t get paid for taking it.
Manager & Investment Selection
MONEYBALL INVESTING: THE REAL REASON SWINGING FOR THE FENCES IS BAD FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO
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One of the more iconic scenes in the movie, Moneyball, involves the baseball scouts discussing various players’ abilities. They note a player’s “classy” swing and then move on to his girlfriend’s looks for an assessment of his in-game proficiency. It’s both darkly humorous and a sly indictment of the flawed mechanics by which scouts judge players.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Ukraine Investment Considerations: Time in the Market Beats Market-Timing
In this new era, our Portfolio Construction and Strategy Team thinks it's more important than ever to focus on an investor's individual goals rather than attempt to find a one-size-fits-all solution.