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Listen to the latest insights from Dr. David Kelly, Chief Global Strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, where he sits down with a variety of thought leaders for a conversational breakdown of big ideas, future trends, emerging topics and their investment implications to help inform building stronger investment plans for the long-term.
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The Center for Investment Excellence features educational insights across asset classes and investment themes designed to give you the tools you need to empower better decisions and build stronger portfolios.
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Listen to the latest insights from Dr. David Kelly, Chief Global Strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management to help prepare you for the week ahead.
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‘Invest it Best‘ is a new investing podcast where you will hear from expert analysts, advisers and fund managers. The show will provide you with insight as to their views on the market, what they‘re looking at, and importantly why that matters. ‘Invest it Best‘ is proudly brought to you by Wilsons Advisory - one of Australia‘s leading financial advisory firms.
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Watch the video version on YouTube. So far, this U.S. election cycle has been nothing short of turbulent and a looming source of volatility for much of this year. With the summer now behind us and November quickly approaching, investors should more seriously consider the implications of the upcoming election, and the opportunities and risks that ma…
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Gaining perspective on public and private equity
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In this final episode for our Strategic Investment Advisory Group's private and public series, David Lebovitz, Global Market Strategist, Multi-Asset Solutions, is joined by Jared Gross, Head of Institutional Portfolio Strategy, to discuss equity markets as strategic asset allocations.By J.P. Morgan Asset Management
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Watch the video version on YouTube. In this episode: The classic 60/40 stock-bond allocation has long been the accepted stalwart portfolio strategy. Currently, however, higher inflation has made the protection typically offered by the negative correlation between stocks and bonds less certain. Equity risk premiums are low, and interest rate volatil…
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Investing in Retail Property Assets with Chris Lock (IP Generation)
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On this episode of the Invest it Best podcast host Ted Richards speaks with IP Generation Founder and CEO, Chris Lock. They discuss commercial property, particularly investing in unlisted retail assets such as Australian shopping malls. The conversation covers; - The advantages and disadvantages of investing in direct, unlisted property compared to…
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Every August, for more than 40 years now, the Federal Reserve has held a retreat in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. It has become an important venue for Fed communications and investors this week will be focused on Jerome Powell’s speech, to be delivered at 10:00AM eastern time (or 8:00AM Wyoming time) on Friday. The topic of this year’s conference is “Reas…
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What might the November elections mean for investment strategy?
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Watch the video version on YouTube. The 2024 presidential election is well underway and has already delivered a host of surprising twists and turns. Against a backdrop of relatively stable economic growth and quite impressive U.S. stock market returns, the election adds a source of uncertainty for investors. Could the election outcome pose a risk t…
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The Outlook for Housing in a Macro Game of Inches
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The last two weeks have provided a vivid reminder of how sensitive markets can be to small changes in the macro-economic outlook. With a nudge down in oil prices, the Fed’s 2% inflation goal suddenly seems achievable within a matter of months. With a slight weakening in the labor market, the unemployment rate has shifted to a trajectory that has fo…
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How will rising federal debt impact the markets and the economy?
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Watch the video version on YouTube. Deficit spending is not at all a new phenomenon in the United States. In fact, it is the norm, and the U.S. has run a budget deficit in 81 of the last 95 years, or 85% of the time since 1929. What is abnormal, however, is how large the pile of U.S. debt has grown relative to the broader economy. In fiscal year 20…
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We live at a time when extreme voices get the most attention and so it is tempting, following a string of weak economic numbers, to yell the word “recession”. However, a balanced assessment of demand and supply suggests that we are, thus far, merely transitioning to slower growth. A slower growth path is a more vulnerable one, particularly because …
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Watch the video version on YouTube. Before 2021, the United States hadn’t seen a major bout of inflation for almost 40 years. And even when inflation peaked in June 2022, consensus estimates showed that most thought inflation would be almost back to 2% by the end of 2024. However, the journey to 2% has been more challenging than expected. Since mid…
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Concentration Risk as the Fed gets Ready to Cut
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My wife, Sari, and I love old movies and one of our favorites is the Long, Long Trailer, staring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Desi and Lucy are newly-weds who decide, instead of buying a house, to purchase a trailer home which they hitch onto the back of their car and set off on their adventures. Soon, without any idea of how to drive such a contra…
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Watch the video version on YouTube. Going into 2023, almost everyone was predicting a recession within the next 12 months. However, what we saw was quite the opposite: the U.S. economy grew at a 2.5% year-over-year pace, and the unemployment rate stayed below 4%. This positive momentum has continued into this year, although the economy is gradually…
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When will the Federal Reserve begin cutting rates?
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Watch the video version on YouTube. After the Federal Reserve’s dovish pivot in December, many investors came into this year expecting multiple rate cuts. In fact, in early January, markets were pricing in over six full cuts in 2024 alone. Since then, sticky inflation has caused the Federal Reserve to reassert its hawkish tone, and the outlook for …
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On this episode of the Invest it Best podcast host Ted Richards speaks with Greg Burke, Equity Strategist at Wilsons Advisory. They discuss different trends across the food industry in Australia including the following; - Greg's recent research report on Australian supermarkets - Impacts from cost of living pressures, easing food prices and regulat…
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How will AI reshape the U.S. economy and investment opportunities?
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Watch the video version on YouTube. Excitement around artificial intelligence has been a key driver behind strong market performance over the past year. This makes sense, as it has potential to be one of the most transformative technologies in modern history. That said, widespread AI implementation is still in its early stages, and its broader impl…
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Despite a slightly higher-than-expected payroll job gain, the June employment report was on the soft side, with downward revisions to payroll gains from prior months, a drop in temporary employment and only modest gains in wages. However, the weakest aspect of the report was the unemployment rate, which edged up from 4.0% to 4.1%. This, in itself, …
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How can you minimize taxes in your investment strategy?
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Watch the video version on YouTube. As technology has improved, so has market efficiency, and generating alpha through active management is as challenging a task as ever. In light of this, “tax alpha,” or creating value through tax management strategies, has grown in importance and popularity and has left investors asking, “How can I minimize taxes…
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How do different generations invest – and how should they?
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Watch the video version on YouTube. From Baby Boomers to Generation Z, each generation has faced their own unique set of investment challenges and opportunities during their lifetimes. While the bulk of wealth in the U.S. belongs to older generations, wealth amongst younger generations is growing rapidly, and they represent an increasingly importan…
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The play, entitled “Steadily She Slows”, has, from a dramatic perspective, turned out to be a dud. It started with such a promising prologue of pandemic, recession, recovery, political upheaval, war and inflation. However, it has since settled into a drawn-out, repetitious script, wherein the lead actor, consumption, hogs the center stage and the s…
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Why add international stocks to a portfolio?
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Watch the video version on YouTube. A long cycle of U.S. equity outperformance over international equities has left investors wondering, “why add international stocks to a portfolio?” However, as the global economy has turned a corner, so have prospects for international equities, and many international markets have performed well in 2024 so far. I…
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Leading with science: A deep dive on biotech
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In this episode, David Lebovitz, Global Strategist, Multi-Asset Solutions, is joined by Stephen Squinto, Chief Investment Officer, J.P. Morgan Life Sciences Private Capital, to discuss the alternative investment landscape, the private biotech market and areas of opportunity in 2024 and beyond.By J.P. Morgan Asset Management
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As a young lad growing up in South Dublin, I received certain geography lessons on where I could, or could not, safely roam. In particular, I was warned not to stray north of O’Connell Street. I remember debating my mother on the issue, once when I wanted to go to a movie at a theatre near Parnell Square. I can’t remember exactly what I said, but I…
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Watch the video version on YouTube. Most of this season is devoted to questions investors ask us about where to invest. However, given an increased focus on building tax efficient, transparent and flexible portfolios, we are also often asked, “How should I invest.” While traditional investment vehicles have made it difficult to reach all these obje…
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Every three months, the 19 members of the Federal Reserve’s Federal Open Market Committee, of FOMC for short, aided, no doubt, by an army of econometric minions, work up new forecasts for key economic variables and their assessment of appropriate monetary policy. In recent days, as they have huddled in their offices engaged on this task, they’ve ha…
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