Recent protests offer hope that change may be right around the corner. But for now, gold and Bitcoin have helped fill the gap created by disastrously mismanaged currencies.

Let me be very clear. I believe the Federal Reserve has already made a significant policy error that can lead directly to recession. An accompanying fiscal policy error by the US Congress could compound the Fed’s error, although that remains to be seen, as it is not clear what will pass Congress.

The impacts of passive investing are not as well understood as they should be.

What exactly is “transitory?”

Monetary policy is not expansionary despite widespread belief otherwise.

As a woman who has worked in the financial services industry for 23 years, I’m keenly aware of the central role we play in money decisions.

US inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index and others continues to surge at rates we haven’t seen in decades.

Here’s how to help your clients reevaluate their life goals and needs as they enter the next stage of their lives.

What can we take from the pandemic and adopt strategically to create the optimal client experience?

During the second quarter, global equity markets extended their strong performance.

Amid a more modest equity market outlook, private equity and real estate are poised to thrive.

In 2010, 68% of the companies in Fortune Magazine’s Global 500 were domiciled in Group of Seven (G7) countries, compared with 17% in the E20* emerging-market (EM) countries.

As summer hits its stride, here are some musings about municipal bond performance to mull over as you unwind at the beach or on the couch (no judging!).

The global economy is in a mid-cycle expansion, following peaks in policy support and growth, and what is likely a transitory spike in inflation. We expect global growth to moderate to a still above-trend pace in 2022.

Global issuance of bonds for environmental, social and governance goals look set to hit $1 trillion for the first time ever this year. That’s more than double what was sold in all of 2020 as more borrowers are pushed to sell ethical debt by investors.

As the global economy continued to reopen and the recovery gained speed, markets reached new highs.

Be forewarned – we are going to empty the quote bin this quarter.

For years, David Horowitz at Agilon Capital was a rare breed in the bond market: a quant in a notoriously old-school business where prices were a call rather than a click away.

Many are convinced that a US stock market correction, or even a bear market, is inevitable. So, when the S&P 500 was down 1.6% last Thursday, many thought it had arrived.

My concern is that 90% of our clients who are very happy with our relationship are not referring. We want to implement an initiative to grab the attention of these clients and help them help us grow.

These are the four outcomes you should strive to achieve while considering if, when, and with whom to make what will be the most important decision of your career.

Correction fears are overdone – amidst all the chatter about stocks being expensive and due for a correction, Brent’s team dissected price data going back to 1950 and found that corrections and bear markets are rarer than commonly perceived.

Gold notched its third straight week of higher prices as the yield on the 10-year Treasury dipped below 1.3% for the first time since February. The highly transmissible Delta variant was also ruled the most dominant strain of coronavirus in the U.S., threatening economic growth and raising uncertainty about the next interest rate hike.

TINA has been applied to investing. You must buy stocks because TINA. You can’t make money any other way. Just close your eyes, buy and hold forever. Or at least through a full market cycle. Frankly, I think that’s stupid.

Everything changed for me, my family and everyone I know on a Friday the 13th.

Investors are backtracking on reflation bets, with the bond rally extending as central banks signal continued support and stocks falling as Covid-19 variants threatened reopening prospects.

Central bankers are engaged in the most sweeping rethink of their role in decades, spurred by the success of tight collaboration with governments in countering the pandemic crisis and a new political reality of increased demands on monetary policy makers.

Our Chief Market Strategist Stephen Dover explores blockchain and digital assets through an equity-investor lens with Anthony Hardy and Christophe Vande Walle.

With so much focus being placed on the inflation versus deflation debate of late and many financial pundits declaring a new inflation paradigm is upon us, what better a time to argue the case for deflation.

For international investors, we believe the United Kingdom is home to many companies that offer an especially attractive combination of growth, value and quality. 

With respect to managing portfolios in an inflationary environment, we have taken great care to emphasize companies that we believe have pricing power due to the mission-critical or value-add nature of their products and services.

This article is about an exception to a rule – an exception that, I believe, has ceased to be. And so the rule has become stronger, and there is a little less joy in the investing world.

Financial advisors should not shy from thinking of themselves as salespeople. It has been said that if it weren’t for salespeople, the world would be a giant warehouse.

As stocks around the world continue to smash one record after another, some of the world’s biggest money managers have a simple message: Get used to it.

Bond investors are worried, and who can blame them?

Rather than my usual economic/investment letter, this week I want to take a more philosophical tack, looking at some of the challenges we face as a country and culture, beginning with the freedom of the press but then turning to technology and even wealth disparity. We will have to consider what freedom of speech meant in the 1800s, what it meant at the turn of this last century, and what it means today in a world of social media.

Reflecting on a busy six months of vaccines, inflation, trade relations, supply chains, and policy challenges.

In the children’s book “Snow” by Uri Shulevitz, the story starts with gray skies and no precipitation

The fastest-growing financial advisory firm this year, according to SmartAsset, is Integrated Partners. It has added nearly $1 billion in recruited advisory assets this year to date.

Most of Latin America is still far from the horrific conditions prevailing in Venezuela, where output has fallen by a staggering 75% since 2013.

Americans are enjoying outsized pay boosts this year from desperate employers, but the raises are failing to keep pace with surging prices for everyday goods.

Here is how I am positioning my firm’s portfolio for the risk – the possibility, not the certainty – of long-term inflation.

Constructing sustainable and risk-adjusted portfolios in a global context

Summer is a good time to sit down and reflect on what you would like to see happen in the fall and 2022.

I generally try to avoid political commentaries in Forecasts & Trends, although I never hesitate to make it clear I am a conservative on most issues.

The global economic reopening remains on track as COVID-19 vaccination rates climb.

In January, during the market frenzy which saw GameStop Corporation on stock go from approximately $20 to nearly $500 intraday within two weeks, some asked why the company did not capitalize on the demand by issuing shares.

Brexit and the pandemic didn’t change the fundamental attractiveness of great U.K. companies.

There is a significant difference among the members of social media platforms. If you’ve seen little ROI from social media, you are spending too much time or money on the wrong platform.