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Client Letter | Looking Ahead | November 2, 2022

James Hendries

Some recent softening in economic data, coupled with signals from the bond market, may be indicating that Fed policymakers’ concerted inflation fight may be closer to the end than the beginning. We should also have slowing corporate earnings growth and greater economic uncertainty to contend with, some formidable seas to navigate.

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Is Active vs. Passive Actually Passé?

ClearMoney

The current landscape suggests the characteristics implied by such traditional, binary labels may not be sufficient to describe many of today’s investment approaches. Because early indexing didn’t spin its wheels in bottom-up company analysis or top-down economic trend forecasting, it became known as passive investing.

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Transcript: Tom Hancock, GMO

The Big Picture

00:13:13 [Speaker Changed] It’s an improvement of value or refinement on the definition of value. And people use these terms loosely, of course, and these all fall under the, the rubric of fundamental investing and buying companies that are great over the long term at great prices. Is that, is that what you’re suggesting?

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Taking Advantage of Higher Yields | Weekly Market Commentary | September 26, 2022

James Hendries

The LPL Research Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocation Committee is increasing its recommended interest rate exposure in its tactical allocation from underweight to neutral. As we know from historical precedents, when the Fed aggressively raises rates, economic growth slows or outright contracts, which is the Fed’s goal.

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Transcript: Jenny Johnson, Franklin Templeton

The Big Picture

Not that Robinhood is how they should be necessarily investing, but hey, it gets them interested in finance, it gets them thinking about money. It’s actually great and especially because you can do some basic kind of asset allocation models, so the robo-advisor… RITHOLTZ: Right. That’s not a terrible thing.

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New Bull May Need a Breather | Weekly Market Commentary | June 26, 2023

James Hendries

However, the impending end of the Federal Reserve (Fed) rate-hiking campaign, and the economy’s and corporate America’s resilience, help make the bull case that steers LPL Research toward a neutral, rather than negative, equities view from a tactical asset allocation perspective. Diversification does not protect against market risk.

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Global Portfolio Strategy | July 7, 2022

James Hendries

Increased equity exposure in tactical asset allocation from 62% to 65%. Reduced low duration core bond allocation and increased allocation to small cap equities. Although energy prices came down some, weakening economic data and the lack of a cease-fire in Ukraine offset the modest gas price relief.