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April FOMC Meeting

Fed Keeps Rates at 23-Year Highs

The Fed culminated a new FOMC meeting on Wednesday with the announcement that the market was already predicting and kept interest rates in the range of 5.25% and 5.5% in order to control inflation. “The Committee decided to maintain the target range for the federal funds rate between 5-1/4% and 5-1/2%,” the Fed said in ...

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Thornburg Spring Due Diligence Conference, ...

The U.S. Economy Is Doing OK

Brian McMahon, Vice-Chairman and Chief Investment Strategist at Thornburg, shared his market views for 2024 at the Thornburg Spring Due Diligence Conference in Santa Fe. These are some of the take outs of his presentation, which in a nutshell highlights that the US economy is basically doing OK. This is quite an affirmation, coming from ...

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Aegon AM Fund Forum 2024

How Long Can the Sweet Spot Last?

Aegon Asset Management hosted a Day of presentations in Miami for Latin American and US Offshore investors. The day opened with a macro review and was followed by presentations on global bonds, high yield and dividend investing. In this article we addess the macro review and how should portfolios position themselves given the outlook for ...

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Laura Vaughan: “The Private Credit Asset Class Have Acted as An Inflation Hedge to a Certain Degree”

Laura Vaughan, head of Direct Lending at Federated Hermes, has a very clear claim: “Private markets may still be classified as alternative investments, but in many ways they have matured into part of the mainstream.” In his experience, investors were attracted to its low volatility, its limitation with other asset classes and the cash income ...

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Interview with Thomas Hanson, head ...

“We think it’s time to invest in high yield and stay in this asset class over time”

Markets are entering a very important phase with the focus on monetary policy. The US Federal Reserve is expected to cut interest rates this year. That obviously means that strategies have to adjust to the circumstances. Following this very important situation in terms of portfolio construction, Thomas Hanson, head of European high yield, Aegon AM, ...

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ING Report

US Services Sector Growing, But Job Concerns Mounting

The US ISM services index shows that business activity and new orders are performing well, but companies are increasingly focused on trimming their workforce. The employment component of the index has dropped into contraction territory, indicating a potential risk of job losses in the coming months. However, with inflation pressures looking less worrying, the Federal ...

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Monthly Asset Allocation

Pictet Asset Management: Tech’s profit growth should continue to propel stocks

The US economy’s resilience and US inflation’s resistance to swiftly return to the US Federal Reserve’s target means we remain overweight equities and neutral bonds. We retain our view that economic growth will slow later in the year, but the timeline is stretching.  Corporate profits remain buoyant and the Fed is clearly indicating an aversion ...

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Insights by Thornburg IM

Three Lessons We Learned in 2023: Insights for the Future

In the journey of life, we are constantly learning and growing. Each lesson we learn is a steppingstone toward a brighter future, with fewer mistakes and greater rewards, if we are attentive and apply those lessons. Last year, we gained a wealth of valuable insights; here are the three most significant. The first one is ...

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Gabelli's column

Small Companies: Pay More Attention to its Convertibles

U.S. equities were mostly higher for the month of January, with the S&P 500 hitting a fresh all-time high for the first time since early 2022. Stocks seamlessly extended their positive momentum from Q4 into the New Year, sustained by the stellar performance of several "Magnificent 7” names, including Nvidia (NVDA), Netflix (NFLX), and Meta ...

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