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Investment Portfolios and Death Spirals
Nobel Laureate William Sharpe was recently quoted as saying the decumulation phase of the investment life-cycle is “the nastiest, hardest problem in finance.”
How Equity Returns in 2017 Proved Powerful
Equity investors should be quite pleased with 2017’s full-year results on a global scale.
MiFID II: What It Is and What It Means for Your Investments
MiFID II (which stands for the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) is a set of regulatory reforms established by the European Union. Its aim is to increase transparency and efficiency as a way of promoting increased investor confidence in capital markets.
Separating Products from Solutions: Navigating the Investment Sales Process
An old proverb goes something like: when you see a situation you don’t understand, look for the financial interest. In today’s world of investigations by special counsel or U.S. attorneys, also described as “follow the money.”
