March 31, 2020
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March 24, 2020
Reflections on the COVID-19 Crisis From a Long-Time EM Investor
It’s hard to believe that, as I approach my 50th year, more than half of my life has been focused on analyzing emerging markets.
March 17, 2020
Learning From China’s Experience Fighting Coronavirus
As Covid-19 disease reaches more countries and new reported cases continue to rise, public anxiety will increase and add more uncertainty for investors.
March 10, 2020
February ETF Flows: That Escalated Quickly
March 3, 2020
When Market Volatility Becomes a Relationship-Building Opportunity
Market volatility can trigger knee-jerk reactions that are best avoided by long-term investors. Two client types in particular are vulnerable to overreacting to the sharp downturn: Millennials and Boomers.
February 28, 2020
Putting the Virus-led Volatility in Context
February 25, 2020
Q&A with MSCI: Why Multifactor Index Construction Matters—Part 1
The rise of multifactor strategies has been an important evolution within smart beta. There are varying approaches to constructing multifactor indices, resulting in considerably different index composition.
February 18, 2020
Charting the Market: Presidential Politics and Portfolios
February 11, 2020
January ETF Flows: A Tale of Two Halves
February 4, 2020
ESG Oversight Framework for Directors
Over the past three years, there has been a noticeable change in directors’ recognition of the importance of sustainability or ESG issues to investors. When we first called on boards to incorporate sustainability into long-term strategy in 2017, only a few companies, mainly in Europe, could demonstrate that they had considered ESG in their strategy.
January 28, 2020
Spotting Trends: 3 Sectors We’re Looking at in Q1
January 21, 2020
The Big What If: Consumers Sneeze and the US Economy Gets the Flu?
The flu causes substantial mortality and loss of productivity in the US each year. The flu is responsible for an estimated average $10.4 billion in direct medical costs and over $16 billion in lost earnings each year.
January 7, 2020
The Big What If: The 1920s Economy Has Lessons for Today?
Does history rhyme or does it repeat? As the page turns to a new year and a new decade, the economy is booming, driven by rapid technological advancement and set against rising inequality, fringe political movements and protectionist sentiment. The same was true 100 years ago. And once again, the ‘20s seem poised to mark a decade of transition.
December 24, 2019
Gold’s Opportunity Cost Becomes “Opportunity Benefit”?
December 18, 2019
2020 ETF Market Outlook
December 10, 2019
November ETF Flows: Investors Get into a Festive Mood
December 3, 2019
Four Factors Are Driving Future Growth of Fixed Income ETFs
November 27, 2019
The Big What If: Amazon and Blue Origin Disrupt the Federal Contract Market?
When Amazon isn’t processing your orders for a new phone case and groceries, it’s busy pursuing billion-dollar federal contracts in cloud computing. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is also after aerospace contracts for his privately held Blue Origin, a rocket manufacturer and suborbital spaceflight company. This month, both companies will be involved in rulings that could disrupt the federal contract market.
November 26, 2019
Uncommon Sense: Giving Thanks – Feasting on Stock Market Highs with All the Trimmings
Despite slowing global economic growth, stagnant corporate profits, volatile trade tensions and rising geopolitical risks, US stocks continue to reach all-time highs. In addition, spreads between US Treasury and corporate bond yields remain historically tight, suggesting a sanguine environment for credit markets.
November 19, 2019
Survey Finds Investors Are Focused on Controlling Risk in Year Ahead [2020 ETF Market Outlook Series, Part 1]
November 12, 2019
Charting the Market: What to Make of the Stock Market’s Climb to a New All-Time High
November 11, 2019
SPDR® ETFs Chart Pack: Key Charts to Help Navigate the Market November 2019 Edition
November 5, 2019
Spotting Trends: 3 Sectors to Consider in Q4
October 22, 2019
Q&A: Why Bond ETFs Use Sampling to Replicate an Index
As I discussed in previous blogs, index tracking methodology for equities can be constructed using either a full replication (where an ETF holds all of the securities that make up the index in their respective weights) or optimization (where an ETF holds a subset of securities that closely resemble the index.) Index tracking methodology for fixed income ETFs can be full replication as well, but it can also work a little differently by using a sampling strategy.
October 15, 2019
Prepare FX Hedges For USD Bear Market Risk
October 8, 2019
September ETF Flows: Throwing on the Noise Cancellers
October 1, 2019
Germany’s Brexit Malady
The September flash manufacturing purchasing managers’ indices (PMI) out of Europe were, without a doubt, this week’s biggest data disappointment. The German Manufacturing PMI, in particular, bucked expectations for an improvement and sank 2.1 points to a new post-global financial crisis low of 41.4.
September 24, 2019
Investors Are Choosing Fixed Income ETFs – Here’s Why
September 17, 2019
The Big What If: Increasing Tension with Iran Derails US-China Trade Talks?
Despite a fresh round of summer tariffs on China, optimism took hold with the post- Labor Day announcement that the next round of US-China trade negotiations would take place in Washington, DC in October. However, just days after that good news, a seemingly unrelated event – the end of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), known as the Iran Deal – threatens to derail trade talks before they begin.
September 10, 2019
