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Fixed Income Insights
Return of the Bond Market: Better Income Opportunities?
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Most investors incorporate bonds into a portfolio to provide diversification. Unfortunately, a smoother return path has not held true in recent years. But now the market has recalibrated, and yields have reset higher. Higher yields mean higher future returns. And for the first time in a while, you can make the argument that bonds provide true competition to stocks.
Fixed Income Insights
Munis and infrastructure
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Portfolio managers Ann Ferentino and Patrick Strollo discuss policy and the impact on municipal bonds with guest Dan Clifton of Strategas.
Client Relationships
[CE Credit] Integrating Community to Grow Your Practice
Several tangible ideas you can implement to enhance your brand, connect with prospective clients, and deepen relationships with current clients through authentic community integration.
Investing Ideas
[Infographic] Electric-vehicle sales are soaring, driving changes in the market
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Electric vehicles are becoming more popular, but changing the market with each purchase.
Client Relationships
Carl Richards: Defining Advice, Defending “the PLAN” , Imposter Syndrome and everything in between!
In this episode, the NYT’s “Sketch Guy “ shares his best advice for those providing advice, why our industry needs to stop selling certainty, how to reposition financial advice to your current and future clients and where creative thinking fits into an advisor’s workflow.
Investing Ideas
Guide to ESG Investing
Even through the downturn in early 2020, you may have noticed clients still considering investments in line with their Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) values. Our four-step guide provides a framework for discussing sustainable investing as part of your financial planning process.
Fixed Income Insights
CLOs: A Bias Toward Quality
CLOs continued their rebound in the third quarter, but the potential for volatility going forward is high. In this environment, there may be benefits to moving up in quality.
Fixed Income Insights
High Yield: Halfway There?
The shock was the story in the first quarter, the stimulus was the story in the second—but we’re decidedly not yet in the post-COVID era, and the path to economic recovery remains unclear. What does that mean for high yield?