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The timing of parents’ income is as important for children as a single measure of parents’ income - Parents’ income can affect a child’s earnings later in life but most empirical studies of intergenerational mobility collapse the childhood years into a si...

Foundation For Slower Economic Growth Being Laid, Stocks Still Work - In our Winter 2020 Investor Letter released earlier this month, our firm indicated our real GDP growth expectation for this year is in the mid single dig...

Wisdom from the Wizard Maker with Jack Schwager - Welcome to the Wizarding World of Market Wizards – and today’s special guest is head wizard who wrote the actual books on market wizards, Jack Schwager. ...

Ensemble Active Management: The Blueprint for Rescuing Active Management - Could EAM generate enough added alpha for active management to reclaim its edge over passive?

Data Update 2 for 2021: The Price of Risk! - Investors are constantly in search of a single metric that will tell them whether a market is under or over valued, and consequently whether they should ...

FAQ: S&P IPSA ESG Tilted Index - The S&P IPSA ESG Tilted Index is an S&P DJI ESG Score-weighted, broad-based index that seeks to measure the performance of stocks meeting sustainability cr...

The Handoff - 361 Capital Market Commentary | January 19th, 2021 It would be a tough position to be short the U.S. markets going into this new Administration. The Fede...

Changes Are Afoot in the New Year | How Stocks Fare on Inauguration Day and Beyond | What Will Biden Proposals Mean for Investors? | Quite a Ride | Uptrend Remains Intact | Small is the New Big | Time For A Pullback? | Staying Bullish For Now | Active Managers Riding Bull Train - NAAIM Speaks is monthly newsletter containing market insights and analysis from NAAIM member firms. “Speaks” is designed to provide a... [ Read More ]

Discretionary and Nondiscretionary Services Expenditures during the COVID-19 Recession - The coronavirus pandemic and the various measures to address it have led to unprecedented convulsions to the U.S. and global economies. In this post, I exa...

International economic challenges for the President-elect: Trade, China, the dollar, and pandemic recovery - Adam S. Posen discussed the policy challenges facing the incoming Biden administration in the international economic realm at a virtual event held by the R...

Making Sense of Sky-High Stock Prices - Many have been puzzled that the world’s stock markets haven’t collapsed in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic downturn it has wrought. Bu...

Light in the COVID Tunnel - If you ever think you just can’t win, I know how you feel. I’m labeled both a doomsayer and a Pollyanna—sometimes in reaction to the same letter.

The Case for Avoiding U.S. Stocks and Buying Asia Instead - CLSA strategist Christopher Woods lays out his views on Asian emerging markets and the potential Trump trade deal with China—and says why the U.S. is his l...

Elevate your discovery process to help win great clients - As an advisor, honing your skills in asking the deep discovery questions sets the tone for a superior client experience. These simple steps may help you bu...

Company Notes Digest 11.05.18 - Each week we read dozens of transcripts from earnings calls and presentations as part of our investment process. Below is a weekly post which contains some...

Brackets and Defense – LOVOL and VXTH Indexes (that Bought VIX Calls) Had Lower Volatility - Over the past two months, there has been increased interest in (1) portfolio protection strategies (2) learning more about prudent uses of VIX® futures and...

Trump Plays with Fire on Trade - Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writ...

Home Equity Wealth at New High - The latest flow-of-funds data from the Federal Reserve confirmed that home-equity wealth reached a new nominal high this year: $13.9 trillion at mid-2017,...

Former Morgan Stanley Executive to Expand Rockefeller Capital Management - Gregory Fleming, formerly with Morgan Stanley, will expand Rockefeller Capital Management’s asset and wealth management businesses.

A New Challenge to the Dollar - Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writ...

Econophysics of Business Cycles: Aggregate Economic Fluctuations, Mean Risks and Mean Square Risks (arxiv.org) -

Robots Expose Firms to Compliance Risks - Pressure to cut costs by replacing humans with robots may end up hurting firms if they’re not careful, PwC says.

MSCI Risk Monitor: RiskMetrics Europe - October 2015 - Under a standard RiskMetrics forecasting model, this monthly Risk Monitor reports on the evolution of risk forecasts for 12 key risk factors chosen for t...