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Portfolio Construction Insights
Model Specialists Coverage Map
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.
Behavioral Finance
Direct Indexing and the IKEA Effect
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The “IKEA effect” describes a cognitive bias that happens when people put in some form of labor to complete a project or finish a creation. Direct indexing won’t solve the behavior gap, but it has the potential to create better investor behaviors by allowing investors to play a larger role in the portfolio-building process.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Focus on Equities: Uncertainty and Volatility Create Opportunity
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Individual stock prices move around much more frequently than business value. At Morningstar Investment Management, we embrace stock price volatility as it provides opportunities to improve our portfolios. We are more optimistic about the long-term outcomes for our portfolios today than we were at the start of 2022. Here's why.
Behavioral Finance
Market Perspective: There are No Rewards Without Risk
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2022 reminded investors of the risk from investing, but none of this makes losses palatable. As the old axiom goes, “there are no rewards without risk.” Here's perspective from Marta Norton, CIO, Americas, Morningstar Investment Management LLC.
Portfolio Construction Insights
8 Actionable Ideas for Financial Advisors Today
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Today’s financial advice environment is complex, with large sums of cash on the sidelines and nervousness among clients rising. Some clients don’t want to miss the market bounce, but they are equally aware of a global recession, inflation, and profit declines. The current conditions are ripe for errors, providing a potential opportunity for advisors to add value.
Behavioral Finance
Understanding the Motivations for Personalized Sustainable Investing
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Approaches that promote a more sustainable society and economy align to a given client’s personal view—and it’s important for an advisor to understand each client’s objectives and preferences.
Human Capital
Jamie Price: Life lessons, Leading with Technology, and His A-Ha Moment
In this episode, Jamie shares how he leverages his past experiences in leading Advisor Group today, the importance of embracing your inner creative and why he’s investing so much into top talent and technology to ensure his advisors are set up for success in the future.