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Fixed Income Insights
Jackson®: Power Planning: The Multi-Generational Benefits of Trust-Owned Annuities
Today’s global economy and volatile markets create challenges for trustees who are tasked with driving growth, preserving capital, and managing the everpresent sting of taxes and expenses in trust–owned portfolios. Did you know that trusts can benefit from the same features that individuals find in annuities? Namely, tax deferral,* income control, and diversified investment options. On the next few pages, we’re going to walk through three phases of trust planning (accumulation, distribution, and post-death planning) and show the many ways that a trust-owned annuity can be a powerful planning tool.
Investing Ideas
THE ARITHMETIC OF ASYMMETRY
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Anyone who has played a casual game of darts, say, at a bar or in the basement, knows an overarching rule of the game: it gets harder as it progresses. While rule systems vary, most games start with a wide-open board full of possibilities. But then, by the end, you’re aiming for the Double 18 and only the Double 18 to win. In short, it’s a game of precision that seems easy at first but becomes very, very hard by the end.
Market Outlooks
Weekly Macro Update: Globalization is Still Strong, but Changing
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Global integration has clearly not stopped, but it is changing. Even with the pandemic’s disruption of global supply chains and rising U.S.-China tensions, investors should continue to count on a world that seems to be further integrating, rather than falling apart.
Market Outlooks
Weekly Macro Update: No Stopping China’s Restocking
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FIFO gives China the global distribution edge across export sectors, even those that fell.
Market Outlooks
Weekly Macro Update: Coiled Spring
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Exceptional garden pinks and yellows mark the arrival of seasonal spring, but the world’s economic data outline a “coiled spring".
Macroeconomic & Geopolitical
Five Forces in International Equities Investors May Be Underestimating
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Global Head of International Equities Justin Thomson surveys five global trends that many international equity investors may be underestimating.
Fixed Income Insights
Why the Eurozone Will Not Mirror China’s Post-COVID Recovery
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The eurozone's post-COVID recovery is set to be slower and more painful than China's.
Investing Ideas
Why the Time Is Right to Consider Investing in Emerging Market Local Debt
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In the post-COVID landscape, EM local bonds can play an important role in portfolios as a potential income-generating growth asset.