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Get in touch with a model specialist to learn how incorporating models, as well as technology, into your practice can help make things more transparent and uncover key areas your clients want to discuss, like risk.
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Portfolio Diagnostics Report - Shifting Gears - Moving to a Goals Based Fixed Income Strategy
Traditional lines in fixed income investing have been blurred by low rates and a proliferation of new strategies. As a result, what was once a fairly straightforward asset class aimed at providing capital preservation and income, is now disorienting for many investors.
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2022 Trends and Opportunities
Curated content for RIAs.
Reflation and Inflation: Survival Guide for an(other) unprecedented year.
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Portfolio Diagnostic Report: Recover Wisely - Be Global, Be Picky
This piece is approved to use with clients.
Despite a violent COVID-driven correction in the first quarter of 2020, markets responded with a rebound throughout the remainder of the year and returns were primarily positive across asset classes. The 2021 Janus Henderson Market GPS Investment Outlook suggests cautious optimism for performance outcomes while exhorting investors to diversify in order to mitigate outlier risks.
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Shifting Gears - Moving to a Goals-Based Fixed Income Strategy
For traditional fixed income investors, much of the last 40 years have been a relatively enjoyable ride. This benefit has slowly evaporated over the past 10 years, as rates have plunged to near zero and now extreme market turmoil from the COVID-19 pandemic has put investors at a crossroads: high-quality, traditional fixed income will always be a crucial bedrock for investment portfolios but emerging from this crisis with extremely low – or even negative – government bond rates means this “insurance” might become more expensive. It’s no wonder, then, that many investors are viewing the fixed income implications of the COVID-19 crisis as existential.
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Which Advisors Had A Smoother Ride During COVID
Advisors should treat the pandemic as a turning point, making strategic changes to add the most value for what clients need today and do more with less.
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Bond ETFs: Financial Advisors Drive Use With Specialized Applications
BlackRock sponsors this Cerulli Associates report that asks 378 financial advisors about their use of bond ETFs.