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In defense of defensive fixed income: The case for adding duration
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Senior Portfolio Strategist Lara Reinhard outlines three reasons why investors with the appropriate risk tolerance and objectives might consider adding intermediate-duration bonds back to their fixed income portfolios.
Portfolio Construction Insights
Sinking sentiment: When a bad mood is good news for markets
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This year, investor sentiment has sunk amid a historically challenging economy. Is consensus now the right place to be, or do investors run the risk of missing out on some of the best long-term buying opportunities?
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.
Retirement
Plan advisors: 5 topics to discuss at your year-end investment committee meeting
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Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto outlines five topics – including recent defined contribution developments and ideas for engaging plan participants – that advisors can discuss at upcoming year-end investment committee meetings.
Retirement
Plan Talk: Analyzing risks and opportunities in today’s plan menu lineups
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In this episode of Plan Talk, Retirement Director Ben Rizzuto speaks with Damien Comeaux, Senior Portfolio Strategist, about how the Portfolio Construction and Strategy (PCS) team analyzes plan menu lineups to help ensure they provide adequate diversification.
Fixed Income Insights
Global Perspectives: Mortgage-Backed Securities – Has the Baby Gone Out with the Bathwater?
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In the latest episode of our Global Perspectives podcast series, Portfolio Manager Nick Childs and Securitized Products Analyst Tom Polus discuss the reasons why they believe mortgage-backed securities have been sold off disproportionately, and if that might be a good thing going forward.
Retirement
Top DC Trends and Developments
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Our Defined Contribution in Review is designed to help CEOs, CFOs, treasurers, human resource and benefits professionals and investment committees stay abreast of recent events that could have an impact on plans or plan participants. Inside you will find quarterly highlights, timely insights about the retirement readiness of plan participants, a summary of new and pending legislation, news from the DOL and other regulatory bodies, updates on ERISA cases and a brief synopsis of global retirement issues.