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RIA Pulse Report: October 7, 2019
Leveraging our massive blind pooled data set, the RIA Pulse report provides timely insights into advisors’ investment activities, risk appetite, and other key trends. This free report delivers weekly value insights straight to advisors’ email to help them manage their business and investments.
Introducing Carbon Beta: What pricing carbon means for investors
For the first time ever, BlackRock is enabling all portfolio managers to stress test their portfolios to future carbon price scenarios. Andre and Mike explain why.
The SEC’s New Standards
This article provides a high-level summary of the rulemaking package and explores its implications for registered investment advisors and dual registrants.
The Market Has a Math Problem
The market has a math problem—or does it? It all depends on where rates go.
next: Millennial magnet - Attract and retain the largest generation in the U.S. workforce
In our second issue of next, we discuss how some of the factors may affect your role as a fiduciary in building effective retirement plans, including the effect changing interest rates may have on target date funds.
Growth vs. Value in global developed markets
Since the mid-1970s, value stocks have generally outperformed growth stocks in developed markets around the globe. The current cycle of growth’s outperformance, starting in 2007, has had both the longest duration and highest magnitude in history.
A Macro View — September Monthly Recap
September lived up to its reputation of being one of the most eventful months of the year, from both a monetary policy and geopolitical headlines perspective. Political discord, trade rhetoric, and the Federal Reserve’s (the Fed) policy comments on future rate cuts contributed to an interesting environment during the month.
Our Latest Research On Active Versus Passive Asset Management
As you are likely well aware, the debate regarding active versus passive investing has existed for a while. And recently, headlines seem to increasingly indicate that active investing has run its course – most managers are failing to meet their benchmarks.
A Macro View: Beta Shifts, P/E, and a New “New Normal”?
We learned in Finance 101 that beta is a metric designed to gauge sensitivity. A stock with a beta of 1.50 relative to the S&P 500 Index should, on average, gain or lose $1.50 for every $1 gained or lost by the index.
Washington Update: Impeachment - A Bust for Legislation, a Boon for Regulation
Normally, news of a sitting U.S. congressman resigning from office just before he pleads guilty to insider trading charges would consume much of the conversation inside the Beltway. But these, of course, are not normal times.
Washington Update: Reg BI - A Case Study in Politically Fueled Regulatory Whiplash
Earlier this week, a U.S. district court in New York state dismissed a consolidated lawsuit that had sought to halt implementation of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s (SEC) Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI) rule.
Weekly Wire: Halloween is coming and the market is getting spooky (again)
It’s October and just like Michael Myers in the Halloween movie, market volatility has returned to give us all a fright, with the S&P 500 Index (S&P 500) off nearly 4% at one point for the month.