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Finding Stocks with Staying Power: The Quality Dimension White Paper
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Quality in stocks can be measured in different ways. Yet the characteristics of resilient companies have something in common—they tend to underpin consistent, long-term equity return potential. Over the last decade, the MSCI World Quality Index returned 12.4% annualized, outperforming the MSCI World Index (Display 1). And during past market crises, quality stocks usually fell less than the broader market, a pattern that we’ve observed over longer time periods and in both US and global stock markets.
Investing Ideas
Myron Scholes on Time: Efficiency in stock and option markets
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In this episode, Myron in conversation with Phil Maymin, compares and contrasts the market efficiency of stocks and options.
Client Relationships
Special episode: Managing Stress for Success (UBS Conversations podcast)
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Lindsay Troxell, Senior Director, Knowledge Labs® Professional Development, was a featured guest on the UBS Conversations podcast. She spoke with host Dan Cassidy about how stress can affect both our minds and our bodies.
Retirement
Plan Talk: Analyzing risks and opportunities in today’s plan menu lineups
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In this episode of Plan Talk, Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto speaks with Damien Comeaux, Senior Portfolio Strategist, about how the Portfolio Construction and Strategy (PCS) team analyzes plan menu lineups to help ensure they provide adequate diversification.
Investing Ideas
A Guide to Investing in a Time of COVID-19…and Beyond
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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.
Retirement
Top DC Trends and Developments
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Our Defined Contribution in Review is designed to help CEOs, CFOs, treasurers, human resource and benefits professionals and investment committees stay abreast of recent events that could have an impact on plans or plan participants. Inside you will find quarterly highlights, timely insights about the retirement readiness of plan participants, a summary of new and pending legislation, news from the DOL and other regulatory bodies, updates on ERISA cases and a brief synopsis of global retirement issues.