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Active/Passive Management
Advisor Perspectives: The Dawn of a New Active-Equity Era
Is the market environment turning favorable for active equity managers? It seems a strange question to ask in the midst of a pandemic and heightened market volatility, but history tells us that it is during just such turbulent times that active managers excel. There is accumulating evidence that market conditions are growing more attractive for showcasing stock-picking skills.
Tax Management
Your words matter! Especially when it comes to TAXES.
Russell Investments has crossed an important milestone with our Tax-Managed Model Strategies. We now have a 15+ year track record to talk about. One thing is very apparent: taxes are hard and the differences between approaches vary wildly.
Manager & Investment Selection
Is your wholesaler your BESTIE?
Have you ever called your wholesaler when you realized late in the game of planning a client event that you need additional funding?
Fixed Income Insights
Tax Reform Impacts Call Into Question Coastal Muni Values
Over a year has passed since the implementation of federal tax reform and high tax states are just beginning to feel the implications. As tax returns are beginning to be filed, residents in the high tax coastal jurisdictions may face some unpleasant surprises, resulting in a realization that the municipal bond tax-exemption is still an efficient way to shield taxable income.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Do your client portfolios carry hidden baggage?
How many of your client portfolios are built on yesterday’s thinking? Our tips for an upgrade.
Manager & Investment Selection
Strategy Series: Strategy Preference Can Indicate Expected Stock Market Return
Rather surprisingly, the equity strategy framework can provide an estimate of current expected stock market returns. This is accomplished by measuring the recent investor response to each strategy, which, it turns out, captures the deep behavioral currents driving market returns. The resulting information is useful when managing equity market exposure.
Fixed Income Insights
Fixed Income Underdogs are the Champs of 2018
As equity investors slowly put their Dow 25,000 hats in their bottom desk drawer, let’s take a second to talk about the biggest underdogs of 2018…bonds. But can the champs repeat in 2019?
Tax Management
Deep Dive: Going Global - Tax-Smart Investing on the International Stage
Join Sophie Antal Gilbert, a Consulting Director at Russell Investments and Jon Eggins a Senior Portfolio Manager for Global Equities at Russell Investments, as they explore some of the potential benefits and challenges of international tax-smart investing.
Tax Management
2018 Capital Gain Distributions: Won’t get fooled again
Capital gain distributions are something that investors often don’t pay attention to until late in the fourth quarter. But several events are coming together to make the tracking and monitoring of capital gain distributions a year-round exercise.