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AAM Viewpoints – The Fomc Policy Change; Why Fixed Income Investors Should Pay Attention
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“Lower for longer” has been Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) mantra since they stepped into the market during the final weeks of March.
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AAM Viewpoints: Emergency Response Management: How Municipalities Are Responding To COVID-19
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Six grueling months into this battle against COVID-19, states and municipalities across the country know that even if they manage to successfully suppress the spread of the virus by year end, the fight will still be far from over.
Fixed Income Insights
The Dire Outlook for Bonds in the Wake of COVID-19
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Over the coming decade or two, bonds are unlikely to fulfill their dual role of income and capital preservation. Bond investors will be forced to choose between income or capital preservation, and there is a good chance they could end up with neither.
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AAM Viewpoints: Don’t Distance From Your Friend – The Trend!
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In this digital age of streaming news amid a plethora of harrowing headline events, it may be advantageous to seek an analog perspective through the lens of technical analysis.
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Inflation, Investments, and the Upcoming Election | Scott Colyer CEO/CIO AAM
AAM's CEO/CIO Scott Colyer speaks on inflation, investments, and the upcoming US presidential election.
Market Outlooks
Virus, The Fed, and Junk Bonds | Scott Colyer CEO/CIO AAM
AAM's CEO/CIO Scott Colyer speaks on the virus, the Fed, and junk bonds during the COVID-19 induced recession.
Market Outlooks
AAM Viewpoints: What If…? Reflections on a Potential Post-Covid New Normal
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As the coronavirus spread throughout the world shutting down economies only to reopen in fits and starts, people’s behavior patterns are changing, especially as it relates to travel, buying/shopping, vacations, higher education, entertainment, overall health practices and consumer consumption.
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AAM Viewpoints: Free Cash for Sale!
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In the face of recession sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic, actions by Congress and the Federal Reserve saturated the money markets, capital markets, and consumers’ pockets with $2.3 trillion of liquidity and a near-zero fed funds rate.
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AAM Viewpoints: Key Determinant of Severity of a Recession the Degree of Market and Economic Liquidity
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In the book “A Brief History of Doom” by Richard Vague, he lays out that since the 1800s there have been six different types of financial crises: external and internal sovereign debt, stock market, inflation, currency and financial or as he details, lending and private debt.
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AAM Viewpoints: 2020 Mid-Year Fixed Income Review
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The first half of 2020 was a tale of two very different markets. The first quarter (Q1) was one for the record books as many of us looked forward to an end to the global lockdown and a return to normalcy.
Behavioral Finance
How to Address Recency Bias with Clients
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Behavioral Finance – Actionable Insights for advisors to help investors battle biases, avoid chasing returns, buying yesterday’s winners, and extrapolating a string of short-term wins indefinitely into the future
Fixed Income Insights
The Dangers in High Yield Bonds & CLOs
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Worth the Risk? Investors in this space have always emphasized higher levels of income or growth rather than capital preservation. While these investments are often termed “speculative,” are investors truly aware of the amount of risk in these asset classes?