A Guide to Investing in a Time of COVID-19…and Beyond
It looks like investing is about to get a lot harder, with thinner return streams and potential pitfalls from ill-timed market sell-offs dominating the post-COVID-19 landscape. Investors are looking for the tools to build portfolios with better up/down capture and improve their odds of achieving income, lifestyle and legacy goals. But it's a design problem that defies simple solutions.
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AB Disruptor Series - Q1: Inflation
We tackle inflation in the first of the Disruptor Series by AllianceBernstein.
Long-Term Trends in EM: A Growing Focus on ESG
Daniel Graña, Matthew Culley and Matt Doody explain why environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors are becoming increasingly important in the analysis of emerging market (EM) companies.
The Case for Collateralized Loan Obligations (CLOs)
CLOs are not a new asset class, but their availability to a wider range of fixed income investors is. Like all securitized products, a CLO manager pools together different loans to create a portfolio in an attempt to produce a more diverse and more secure offering. MBS do this for home mortgages; CLOs do this for commercial bank loans.