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Chief Investment Officer is pleased to present our latest Thought Leadership Round-Up newsletter featuring content from thought leaders in the industry.
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 | | The Trend Towards Multi-Sector Credit Strategies | Learn why multi-sector credit strategies are particularly well-suited for today’s market and the factors contributing to the segment’s significant growth over the past five years.
| | Sponsored by Invesco |
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 | | Charting the LDI opportunity set | A clear view of the U.S. long bond market is crucial for defined benefit plan sponsors seeking to hedge long-term liabilities. Our new map of the market can help sponsors understand the opportunities and challenges in the LDI universe and craft effective investment strategy.
| | Sponsored by Capital Group |
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 | | INVESTING ABROAD | What are the benefits of international investing?
| | Sponsored by iShares By BlackRock |
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 | | Managing Equity Risk … Without Giving Up on Equities | Equity markets have been in a secular bull market for more than a decade and recently set new all-time highs. With valuations rich by multiple measures and U.S. economic growth slowing, many allocators are worried the bull market could be running out of steam. Fixed income isn’t an attractive option for many of them, given the extraordinarily low interest-rate environment.
| | Sponsored by Securian Asset Management |
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 | | The Evolution of LDI: Maximizing the Certainty of Your Outcome | For over 15 years, Insight has been an industry pioneer in LDI, partnering with many of the largest plan sponsors to shape and evolve their pension risk management strategies. We believe that LDI is about putting liabilities at the center of a plan’s decision-making process, while recognizing that risk is best measured as eliminating shortfalls to the desired outcome. This requires a different approach to more traditional volatility management.
| | Sponsored by Insight Investment |
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| | Small Caps: Where Implementation can Make a Big Difference | Demand for small cap equities has been tied to everything from tax cuts to trade wars in recent years, with some of the largest ever swings in investor positioning following suit. After outperforming large caps by a wide margin to start the year, we’ve seen small caps lag since summer. Join iShares and FTSE Russell for a discussion of the drivers behind those differences, and the conditions that could lead to a reversal.
| | Sponsored by iShares by BlackRock |
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 | | How do you preserve capital and generate profit consistently? | Preserving capital and generating positive returns consistently through market cycles is the greatest challenge for a plan sponsor and investment manager. Jack Murphy, CIO of Levin Easterly Partners, will discuss the approach that his team takes to manage contrarian value equity portfolios for his institutional client base.
| | Sponsored by Levin Easterly |
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