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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.
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?
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.
Investing Ideas
Deep Dive: Investing in Today’s Markets Without a Crystal Ball
Join Sophie Antal Gilbert, a Consulting Director at Russell Investments and Rob Balkema a Senior Portfolio Manager for Multi-Asset Solutions at Russell Investments, as they explore some approaches for investing in uncertain markets.
Manager & Investment Selection
Deep Dive: Manager Research
Join Sophie Gilbert, a Consulting Director at Russell Investments and Kris Nelson, a Senior Research Analysts at Russell Investments, as they explore active money manager research. Listen as they discuss what it is, what it takes to be good at it and how it can help investors.
Active/Passive Management
Active and Passive Investing: The Case For Both
Read why Russell Investments believes that smart money takes a total-portfolio approach.
Investing Ideas
An Interest Rate Hedging Diagnostic
This piece is approved to use with clients.
One of the biggest strategic decisions faced by defined benefit pension plans is that of choosing an interest rate hedge ratio.
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: Behavioral Financial Markets
The analytical tools derived from behavioral finance’s more realistic representation of financial markets and human behavior will likely replace the wealth-limiting MPT tools in use today.
Active/Passive Management
The Active Equity Renaissance: New Frontiers of Risk
One modern portfolio theory (MPT) pillar that is unquestionably broken is the use of volatility, specifically standard deviation, as a measure of risk.