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Retirement
Income Comparison: Two Approaches for Retirement
Retirees have different needs from their portfolios, so you might expect a portfolio’s investment strategy to be aligned with those needs. Although the income approach isn’t always preferred, new research shows it can be a viable alternative to a total return approach.
Retirement
A New Way to Calculate Retirement Health Care Costs
We believe viewing retirement health care costs as an annual expense, instead of as a lump sum, makes it easier for retirees to plan for and pay for them.
Alternative Investments
Understanding Gold: An Expensive Insurance Policy?
One of the most significant investment winners year-to-date in 2020 has been gold. What is behind the sudden interest in the yellow metal? We look at the history of gold as an investment and what may have been driving the rise in the price of gold in 2020.
Retirement
Helping Millennial Women Close the Retirement Savings Gap
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Recent data show that the retirement savings of millennial and baby boomer women continue to lag behind their male peers.
Retirement
What volatility means for retirement plan participants
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Market volatility doesn’t have to interfere with retirement outcomes. Here are three ways volatility can impact plan participants and three ways to manage it.
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.
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.