Making a List and Checking it Twice

Making a List and Checking it Twice

Evaluating these list items now will provide professionals with the flexibility to design the best response for potential adverse outcomes. And like any list made this holiday season, we recommend that investors take time to check it twice.
Change You Can Believe In

Change You Can Believe In

Both events will add risk to assets that previously had little to none, and should motivate investors to seek prudent alternatives sooner rather than later.
The Convexity of Credit Revisted

The Convexity of Credit Revisted

While developed markets abroad have experienced exceptional volatility in 2012, this volatility has neither derailed the impressive performance of U.S. credit indices nor prevented the compression of credit spreads which are approaching year-to-date lows.
Waning Interest

Waning Interest

By contrast, interest rates in “peripheral” countries remain volatile and on a general upward trajectory as eurozone policymakers struggle to repair crippling structural imbalances in troubled member states and to contain market concerns of a near-term sovereign...
United We Stand, Divided We Fall

United We Stand, Divided We Fall

While we will reserve judgment on the recent policy actions until additional details emerge, we anticipate further consolidation of monetary, fiscal and regulatory efforts among EU member states as the debt crisis wages on.