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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.
Manager & Investment Selection
MONEYBALL INVESTING: THE REAL REASON SWINGING FOR THE FENCES IS BAD FOR YOUR PORTFOLIO
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One of the more iconic scenes in the movie, Moneyball, involves the baseball scouts discussing various players’ abilities. They note a player’s “classy” swing and then move on to his girlfriend’s looks for an assessment of his in-game proficiency. It’s both darkly humorous and a sly indictment of the flawed mechanics by which scouts judge players.
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.