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The Ground Has Shifted: Meketa's Mid-Year Macro Reckoning
What began as a framework organized around four familiar themes has become something considerably more urgent. When Meketa…
The Changing Face of Emerging Markets, Technology & Commodities
Technology and commodities are reshaping one of the world's most misunderstood asset classes — and the implications for advisors and investors are significant.
The Conviction Gap: What Most Advisor Portfolios Are Missing at the Core
Most advisor portfolios mistake active weight for manager conviction. Franklin Templeton's five-factor core equity suite fixes that, starting with a proprietary conviction signal that extracts what managers actually believe.
Returns Are a Commodity—Stop Selling the Plumbing
Listen on The Move If you couldn't talk about performance for 10 minutes, what would you tell…
Cost of Living in North America: The Pressure Is Real, But So Is the Resilience
RBC Economics' Carrie Freestone and Claire Fan break down where prices stand, how consumers are coping, and what central banks are likely to do next.
Rethinking Fixed Income for Today's Post-QE Market
White Paper on Structural Change in Government and Corporate Bond Markets
Rising Oil and Real Yields Test Equity Leadership
by Professor Jeremy J. Siegel, Senior Economist to WisdomTree The market encountered its stiffest test in months last week as…
Wesbury: More of the Same
by Brian S. Wesbury – Chief Economist & Robert Stein, CFA – Deputy Chief Economist, First Trust Portfolios The more…
The Electricity Tipping Point & the Next Energy Boom
by Lucas White, Portfolio Manager, GMO LLC Introduction Electricity demand is surging all over the world. To meet…
What is going on with gold?
by Russ Koesterich, CFA, JD, Portfolio Manager, BlackRock Summary Russ Koesterich explains gold’s recent fall and lays out…
Black Gold Gets Crude Awakening
by Hubert Marleau, Market Economist, Palos Management Last week I wrote that: “the stock market was heading into…
The Warsh Dividend: Why Bonds Are Back on the Table
Every so often, a structural shift in the institutional landscape demands that investors reconsider assumptions they have held…
The Eh-OK Consumer
by Craig Basinger, Chief Market Strategist, Purpose Investments Sneak peak – Our plan for next week’s ethos is…
The World's Balance Sheet Is Bigger Than Ever. That's Not Necessarily Good News.
When $570 Trillion Tells Only Half the Story
GSAM: Hedge Funds Were Built for This
Goldman Sachs Asset Management makes the case that the conditions favouring traditional portfolios are gone, and the conditions favouring hedge funds have arrived.
GMO: Mid-Year Update: Equity Dislocation Strategy
by The Asset Allocation Team, GMO LLC It has been an eventful six months, and we are delighted…