The Fed Has Inflated Another Asset Bubble
It didn’t take long. Over the last several years, we have discussed the risk of excessive monetary policy inflating a bubble in a variety of assets from debt, to real estate, to stocks.
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Retail Sales Bounce, But Consumers Are Tapped Out
Despite the bounce in retail sales, there will still be no “V-shaped” recovery.
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The Most Important Economic Indicator Crashes Most on Record
Last week, the Bureau of economic analysis released revisions to the GDP report for the first quarter of 2020. It fell from a 2.3% annual real growth rate in the 4th quarter of 2019 to a -5%…
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Was March A Bear Market? Or, Just A Big Correction?
As noted last week, the markets remain stuck between the 50- and 200-dma. That remained the case this week once again, keeping any expansion of equity positioning on hold.
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The Pandemic Portfolio Podcast: Risk Parity, Convexity and Multi-Asset Factors in Extreme Markets
How long will the recession last? How deep will it be? What are the long-term implications for the economy, markets, and society? The global pandemic has ushered in a period of extreme…
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Adaptive Asset Allocation: A Different Way to “Manage Futures”
By most measures U.S. stocks and global bonds have pushed well into high valuation territory, which has preceded periods of very-low prospective returns in the past. For investors to achieve…
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Adding Alternatives: Allocating to Hybrid Strategies
What Golf and Investing Can Tell Us About the Benefits of a Hybrid Approach
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Hybrid Strategy Allocation Calculator
The interactive Catalyst Insights Allocator Tool lets users understand the historical impact of implementing a hybrid strategy into a traditional 60/40 stock/bond portfolio.
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