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Finding Stocks with Staying Power: The Quality Dimension White Paper
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Quality in stocks can be measured in different ways. Yet the characteristics of resilient companies have something in common—they tend to underpin consistent, long-term equity return potential. Over the last decade, the MSCI World Quality Index returned 12.4% annualized, outperforming the MSCI World Index (Display 1). And during past market crises, quality stocks usually fell less than the broader market, a pattern that we’ve observed over longer time periods and in both US and global stock markets.
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A Guide to Investing in a Time of COVID-19…and Beyond
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It looks like investing is about to get a lot harder, with thinner return streams and potential pitfalls from ill-timed market sell-offs dominating the post-COVID-19 landscape.
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The Hunt for Quality: Searching for Durable Stocks in Uncertain Times
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High-quality companies are always in style. In good times and bad, features that define resilient businesses and stocks underpin consistent and solid equity return potential. But to consistently find companies that meet the highest quality standards requires research, judgment and investing skill.
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Why the Time Is Right to Consider Investing in Emerging Market Local Debt
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In the post-COVID landscape, EM local bonds can play an important role in portfolios as a potential income-generating growth asset.
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U.S. Presidential Elections and Stock Markets
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Historically, market returns helped predict presidential election outcomes, but using election dates for market timing is inconclusive.
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Global Asset Allocation Viewpoints and Investment Environment
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Pledges of fiscal spending have been quick to follow actions taken by major central banks to combat the looming impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. G-20 countries have pledged more than $5 trillion USD in stimulus through a wide range of avenues to stave off the effects on the global economy.
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The Type of Bear Market Matters
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As we enter into a bear market for the first time in over 10 years at the hands of the COVID-19 outbreak, many investors are wondering what lies ahead.