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The case for private markets: three things to know
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Investors should consider three important benefits as they evaluate allocating to private markets.
Fixed Income Insights
Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields rise as banking concerns ease
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U.S. Treasury yields rose as conditions in the banking sector continued to stabilize and investor concerns receded.
Fixed Income Insights
Weekly Fixed Income Commentary: Treasury yields continue to climb on escalating Fed rhetoric
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U.S. Treasury yields rose yet again as the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) continued to ratchet up its hawkish tone.
Market Outlooks
Weekly Investment Commentary: The tide has yet to turn for non-U.S. equities
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For now, we advocate underweighting non-U.S. equities as part of a strategic asset allocation, due to the lack of positive catalysts in key markets.
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: A dive into 2020 Fixed Income Markets & what they tell us for 2021
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The unfolding of diverse and largely unseen set of events in 2020 make it difficult to select only a few that we feel represent the tenor of the fixed income markets and the broad economy within this commentary. Clearly, the migration back into risk assets beginning in Q2 (the 2nd quarter) continued through Q4 2020 buttressed by what we think can be four primary causes:
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: Let’s party like it’s 1999!
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As the calendar changed from 2020 to 2021, I can’t help but find an environment that is truly surreal. We have a raging global pandemic on our hands that is getting markedly worse on a day-by-day basis, we have vaccines that are sitting in warehouses being administered at one-tenth the rate that is necessary to accomplish the task at hand and we have millions without a job with difficult prospects of getting one in the near future.
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: Equity market side effects of the covid-19 vaccine
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The 337 days spanning the World Health Organization’s announcement of COVID-19 to the FDA approval of the first vaccine the world witnessed many social, economic, and scientific events few thought possible.
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: Light at the end of the tunnel
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The year 2020 and the start of 2021 will be burned into the collective consciousness for quite some time for a myriad of reasons and given this we probably shouldn’t rehash every headline here. However, from an investment standpoint we can summarize 2020 very simply as: