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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.
Fixed Income Insights
The Next Generation of Fixed Income - Tax Loss Harvesting
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Taxes matter to a bond investor’s bottom line. That’s why we’ve brought a digital, high-speed solution to fixed-income active tax management. By continually optimizing separately managed accounts to identify opportunities to harvest losses and by efficiently reinvesting the proceeds in tax-favorable opportunities, automated tax management has the potential to add more than 90 basis points to after-tax returns in some years, according to our in-depth analysis.
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.
Human Capital
Diversity is Good Business for Advisory Firms
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U.S. demographics are changing and we are expected to be a minority/majority by 2045. Yet the majority of financial advisors are still overwhelmingly white, male and shrinking in numbers. FlexShares conducted a survey of investors and advisors to see if diversity was being pursued and how firms were building diverse teams.
Human Capital
Managing NextGen Financial Professionals
In this paper we seek to acknowledge the truths and dispel the myths around the stereotypes attached to Millennials. By understanding the drivers of Millennials’ preferred work styles and expectations, we believe advisors will be better equipped to manage them.
Investing Ideas
Strategas Insight: Handicapping the Outlook for US-Sino Trade Negotiations
Market pundits have doubted this bull market every step of the way. Each pullback put into evidence that the cycle had reached its endgame; each recovery off the lows furthered the disequilibrium caused by monetary malfeasance. And yet, not more than two weeks ago the market stood as high as it ever has.
Investing Ideas
Strategas Insight: Give a little, get a little
Read the full commentary for insight on earnings, data, macro, and other key factors affecting the US economy in the near term.
Investing Ideas
Strategas Insight: Thoughts on the Current Market
As 2018 comes to a close and we move into the new year, the stock market has hit some turbulence just as clients are receiving annual account statements and paying more attention to their financial health. How should advisors respond to their clients’ concerns? We feel it comes down to a few fundamental questions.