In this Investment Insight, we explore: How inflation, rising interest rates, and bond prices intersect. The value of active management when investing with bonds. Strategies for investing when rates are rising. After a decade-long slide in interest rates, bond investors may be facing a period of sustained rate hikes, prompting worries about the implications for
June 19, 2018—It’s not just the warm weather on the East Coast that is heating up these days. It is also the escalating friction between the U.S. and its trading partners, China in particular. The Trump administration has imposed a series of tariffs that are either in or will soon be in effect on a spectrum of
June 15, 2018—On Thursday, June 14, the European Central Bank (ECB) made the equivalent of a bar’s ‘last call’ before it stops serving alcohol. It announced at its policy meeting that the asset purchase program known as quantitative easing (QE) would be winding down in the fourth quarter of 2018 and ending by the end
