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Productivity: The antidote to an inflationary era
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Head of Global Asset Allocation Ashwin Alankar explains how adopting productivity-enhancing innovations can help corporations defend margins and earnings in an era of higher inflation.
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Financial Records Organization Checklist
We’ve created this checklist as a guide to help you organize important financial documents to be better prepared to manage affairs after a catastrophe, serious illness, disability or death.
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Budgeting Checklist
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Use this worksheet as a preliminary tool to organize and understand your monthly expenses against your income. It is important to consider other aspects, including retirement savings.
Client Experience
Client experience for the modern financial professional
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Practice management expert Lindsay Troxell provides actionable steps to help financial professionals take charge of their client experience, or CX.
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Sleeping at Night? Consider Adding an Absolute Return Strategy
Perhaps the most concerning issue for multi-asset investors as we turn to 2023 is diversification—or the lack thereof in recent times. And while this is not the first time that the “traditional” correlation between U.S. Treasuries and equity markets has broken down—people tend to pay less attention when both are producing positive returns—it has been one of the worst years on record for the total return of a 60/40 portfolio in 2022.Herein lies the merits of discussing an absolute return approach with clients.
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Global Convictions: January 2023 Asset Class Research
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Heading into 2023, bearish sentiment among investors is coming off a very low base, with some of the worst recorded data since tracking started 35 years ago. With a contrarian lens, this could be a positive. However, while the overall valuation landscape has undoubtedly improved, there are many assets which remain around fair value. In such an environment, we continue to balance opportunities against risks.
Investing Ideas
The forecasters were right
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Just how good an indicator of future performance are earnings predictions? Portfolio Manager Aneet Chachra considers the historical value of forecasts, and questions whether investors can use them to help guide their investment decisions, as we look ahead to 2023.