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MiB: Andrew Slimmon, Morgan Stanley Investment Management

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 This week, we speak with Andrew Slimmon , managing director at Morgan Stanley Investment Management , where he leads the Applied Equity Advisors team. He began his career at Morgan Stanley in 1991 as an adviser in private wealth management, and later served as chief investment officer of the Morgan Stanley Trust Co.

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How Do Active Managers Invest Their Own Money?

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He points to a research note from Kings College where the authors surveyed active managers about how they were responding to the shift in favor from active to passive fund management over the past decade or two. But they also asked questions about how these managers invested their own monies.

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At the Money: Managing a Portfolio in a Higher Rate Environment

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Investors should be considering capturing some of that yield in their portfolios. We’re going to discuss how these changes are likely to affect your portfolios and what you should do about it. When they took yields as low as they did, they sent bond managers looking for higher and riskier yields. They felt better.

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Investing Behavioral Hacks

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The problem is those behaviors are so destructive to a portfolio. 1 We ignore the reality of human behavior, including the need for some thrills and excitement, at the peril of our portfolios. Manage all of the above toward your financial goals and plan. The post Investing Behavioral Hacks appeared first on The Big Picture.

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MiB: Marta Norton, Morningstar Investment Management

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This week, we speak with Marta Norton, Chief Investment Officer for Morningstar Investment Management (MIM ). The firm manages or advises on about $250 billion in advisor assets. Norton’s responsibilities include equity, alternative and fixed income research, asset allocation, and portfolio management.

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The Holy Grail of Portfolio Management

A Wealth of Common Sense

Diversification is one of the first building block portfolio management concepts I ever learned in my first job in the investment industry. Our firm would create a Harry Markowitz efficient frontier chart for every client portfolio. The interesting thing to me about producing these chart.

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MiB: Michael Carmen, Co-Head, Private Investments, Wellington Management

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This week, we speak with Michael Carmen , co-head of private investments at Wellington Management Co. LLP, which has more than $1 trillion in assets under management. Carmen, who manages the diversified late-stage growth equity business, previously managed institutional portfolios in the multi-cap growth style.