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Fixed Income Insights
Seeking opportunities in a 'crooked U' recovery
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Dramatic dislocations offer selective potential upside in fixed-income credit.
Fixed Income Insights
For fixed income, it's a tale of two walls
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A wall of worry vs. a wall of liquidity is limiting back-half options.
Fixed Income Insights
Entry points for emerging markets
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Attractive valuations exist across IG and high-yield credit segments.
Behavioral Finance
Invest for The Decade, Not the Year
Sharing helpful data like decade-returns of the market can motivate investors to focus on the long-term and avoid costly behavioral mistakes.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor Perspectives and Practices: Practical Planning Is Your Compass
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The next several weeks are going to be challenging for advisors and investors. The reality of the scope and severity of the pandemic along with the associated economic and market damage will hit home raising fear levels to new highs. In these times, it will be hard not to overreact, panic or lose hope. Strong emotions and behavioral biases including, anchoring, loss aversion, cascading and availability bias can cloud our thinking and lead to poor decision making. Engaging in realistic and practical planning discussions along with relevant behavioral coaching can provide essential support during these challenging times.
Behavioral Finance
Behavioral Advisor Perspectives and Practices: Responding vs. Reacting
Beneficial long-term decisions often feel counter-intuitive at the time, but don’t underestimate the value of a steady hand when things seem the most grim.
Human Capital
Rate Swings Needn't Rattle Dividend Investors
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Fluctuating rates may impact other forms of income but dividend payments aren't likely to be affected.
Behavioral Finance
How Long Can A Good Fund Look Bad?
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It’s only natural for someone invested in a poorly performing active equity mutual fund to wonder if it’s time to make a change. Should an investor sell a fund if it trails its benchmark for a year? Three years? Five years?
Fixed Income Insights
Isn't that what you're supposed to do?
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Bond yields have reversed much of the August decline. The reasons are many.
Fixed Income Insights
The Federated Approach to Managing Fixed-Income Investments
Federated believes that optimum results in fixed-income products are best achieved through a traditional value-based approach, using fundamental analysis with teams focused by sector to extract value from each step.
Behavioral Finance
We Don’t Have to Have a Recession
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There is not a “natural” economic reason for this expansion to end.
Behavioral Finance
Long-Term is Longer Than You Think
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Investment time horizon is a critical concept in building wealth. Most investors have very long investment time horizons, typically decades or more.