Recession Deja Vu – No Smoke Without Fire
The Weakest Drop First How did this happen? We Lower Interest Rates and This is What We Get In Return? How large is the BBB Bond Market Banks haven’t failed...Read More
Brexit Update – Boris Johnson Edition
When I last wrote about Brexit, Theresa May was busy trying to get her hard-negotiated agreement for terms of Brexit passed through Parliament. As we all know, this failed, May...Read More
Great Recession Deja Vu?: What to say to ignore the peanut gallery
What do you tell fearful clients when they call to suddenly change their investment strategy because of the trending bearish media soundbite? Maybe it is easy to dismiss when the source is...Read More
Are You Capitalizing On Growing ESG-investing Popularity
What is ESG? Trendy, but Who Cares? Advisors are Missing the ESG Market. How Do Advisors Attract ESG Clients? We all can become complacent in our work at times....Read More
Inverted Yield Curves Revisited
I wrote about yield curve inversions back in November 2018. At the time the US yield curve was flattening, but resisting inversion. By the most common measure of inversion, the...Read More
How Target Date Defaults Affect Equity Allocation Exposure
Money market funds used to be common default investments for 401k plans. More recently, it is becoming more common for target date funds to be the default investment of choice. While it might make more sense to use a TDF as a default, How Target Date Defaults Affect Equity Allocation Exposure takes an interesting look at the unintended consequences.