To find the best stocks to invest in, there are more than 19,000 stocks to pick from in the US and Canadian markets alone. Consequently, how is the individual self-directed investor able to find the best stocks to meet their goals objectives, and risk tolerances?
Commodity ETFs have seen a significant dip in financial advisors' interest and YTD flows in 2023.
The Northern Trust Economics team shares its outlook for U.S. growth, employment, interest rates and inflation.
One of the unforeseen side effects of the current travel boom has been flight delays, mostly because of staff shortages, and this has raised the issue of pilot retirements.
VettaFi’s Tom Lydon offers key takeaways from their recent Fixed Income Symposium. Simplify ETFs’ Paul Kim discusses the firm’s recent growth and highlights several unique ETFs. Democracy Investments’ Julie Cane explains the investment thesis behind the Democracy International Fund ETF (DMCY).
Investors willing and able to accept the illiquidity risk of CLOs should consider them as alternatives with attractive risk/reward characteristics.
A lot of the conversation around the rise of artificial intelligence has focused on its threat to white-collar jobs and knowledge workers.
Money market allocations hedged investors from tumbling equity markets last year and for the first time in a long time, generated considerable interest income. While cash-like investments offer liquidity and risk management, they do have some drawbacks. What other options do investors have?
Financial companies that help address some of the world’s most pressing socioeconomic challenges deserve attention from sustainability-focused investors.
So far in 2023, equity markets have shrugged off banking stress, recession risk, and monetary tightening in favor of a more optimistic view. While risks remain, alternative data suggests that inflation may fall faster than expected as the economy remains relatively healthy.
The Sovereign Debt Wave is at a historic peak and appears set to continue growing. With higher inflation and reduced liquidity, some countries will be able to continue to issue debt easily, while some will not.
Despite persistent inflation and elevated short-term interest rates, the economy appears to be holding up well, and we believe the Fed may deliver the “soft landing” it has been trying to engineer.
It is no secret that the biggest virtual event of the summer is the coming July 24 Fixed Income Symposium. Here’s why advisors can’t afford to miss this event.
El Niño will test the resilience of both infrastructure and food supply chains.
An advisor’s greatest contribution to an investor’s bottom line is their guidance through volatile markets.
Economic indicators are released every week to help provide insight into the overall health of the U.S. economy. In this article, we examine indicators from the past week, such as inflation, that shed light on both inflationary trends and sentiment within the market.
Head of Franklin Templeton Institute Stephen Dover recently moderated a panel of our leading economists and asked this key question: What’s in store for investors in the second half? Here’s a quick take on their answers.
The stock market has got to be the weirdest market in existence. It is the only place where people go to buy things and hate it when those things go on sale.
Last December, Florida’s legislature passed a controversial but necessary set of reforms aimed at shoring up the state’s teetering property insurance market, where a string of insurers had canceled policies and even filed for bankruptcy, leaving homeowners with dwindling options.
Global corporate bond returns just hit their highest level this year on bets that the inflation crisis is coming to an end. Some investors say this may be as good as it gets, with dangers lurking in credit markets for the second half.
China’s ultra-long government bonds are seeing heated demand as the economy’s dire outlook and expectations for modest stimulus drive bets for further gains.
An out-of-cycle rebalance in the Nasdaq 100 is adding another layer of wrinkles to stock trading with a flood of options expiring Friday.
The Chinese economy’s current travails illustrate the growth challenges facing many other countries around the world. By re-engineering ineffective growth models and improving domestic economic management, developed and developing countries can avoid falling into the growth trap China now finds itself in.
Home country bias means that investors may be overlooking international bonds. Certainly, the flows into U.S. fixed income ETFs dwarf the flows into international bond ETFs. That could be a missed opportunity.
Transitioning to a green net-zero economy requires climate solutions that enable the economy to decarbonise, such as renewable energy, electric vehicles, and recycling technologies.
Markets can present challenges for investors as volatility, direction, supply, outside influences, and future expectations are continuously changing.
Health care’s innovation-driven growth and inherent resilience makes it a natural fit for dividend growth investors, according to Franklin Equity Group.
Amazon is the world’s largest online retailer and a prominent player in the field of cloud services, digital streaming, and artificial intelligence. This Knowledge Leader has redefined the landscape of e-commerce and technology.
The MSCI EM index is up 20% from its bottom last October, but is almost 30% below its February 2021 peak. Thus, it has lagged other major markets globally. We have seen and heard investors getting more positive on emerging equities and reallocating capital accordingly.
We’ve known for a long time that CPI-adjusted lifetime guarantees are the ultimate bedrock for a secure retirement.
Appealing yields and cautious markets.
Tesla Inc.’s latest results gave bulls a lot of what they wanted: An earnings beat, tantalizing shots of the Cybertruck, and an “internal projection of Dojo compute power,” referring to the in-house supercomputer.
Perhaps taking a page from the US, where retirement funds have long made significant equity investments, the UK is hoping that adding lots of private equity to its pension pots will drive higher returns and superior growth outcomes.
Wells Fargo & Co. grabbed the most trading and dealmaking market share in years, a key milestone for Chief Executive Officer Charlie Scharf’s quest to build the fourth-largest US bank into a more formidable Wall Street player.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc.’s profit plunged as the Wall Street giant notched one of its weakest quarters under Chief Executive Officer David Solomon.
Using LOGICLY’s data and analytics platform, this article looks at the top funds in the equity asset class that have brought in the most assets YTD.
We favor emerging market (EM) to developed market (DM) assets on a brighter macro backdrop. We get granular and harness mega forces, per our playbook.
The beginning of the banking and commercial real estate crisis this year has many parallels to the start of the residential real estate crisis in 2007.
Nokia Corporation is a global leader in networking. Based in Espoo, Finland, this Knowledge Leader’s mission is to bring together the world’s people, machines, and devices to realize the potential of digital in every industry.
Even benchmark-makers are starting to address the supersized influence of heavyweight stocks. Nasdaq’s plan to reconfigure the weights of its constituents should prompt investors to think about the broader concentration risks in US equity markets, particularly in passive portfolios.
The economy has held up remarkably well despite the Fed’s tightening program, but with two more hikes likely in 2023, the risk of a slowdown remains elevated.
NEOS is an ETF sponsor, and its ETFs aim to deliver the next evolution of options strategies that seek income as the outcome. Built on decades of research and experience, NEOS ETFs aim to empower investors with portfolio building blocks to provide high monthly income, tax efficiency, and diversification through data-driven options-based ETFs. Today, we’ll be speaking with Garrett Paolella of NEOS investments, to learn more about its suite of ETFs, its potential benefits, and where they may fit in investment portfolios.
After a stretch of wildly positive economic surprises, the latest US retail sales data felt like more of a mixed bag: the top-line number missed forecasts and, partially in response, stocks drifted aimlessly between losses and modest gains.
Traders now have no doubt: the Federal Reserve will start raising interest rates once again next week.
The best argument in favor of approving new Bitcoin exchange-traded funds is that they already exist, tracking futures. Sadly for the crypto crowd, that’s also the best argument for why nobody needs a new one.
An improved income outlook for multi-asset investors, including higher yields, sharply contrasts with cloudy conditions at 2023’s start.
A high probability for an El Niño event in the second half of 2023 brings concerns of extreme weather, persistent inflation, supply chain disruptions, and market volatility.
Chief Economist Eugenio J. Alemán discusses current economic conditions.
The global economy remains in a fragile state. Headline inflation is above-target in almost all major economies, and core inflation is sticky and elevated.
