Improving participant outcomes means going beyond the retirement plan.

The economy’s impressive resilience has helped markets shake off fiscal and geopolitical uncertainties. But while it’s business as usual for some sectors, others are facing a panoply of new challenges, compounded by the accelerating AI revolution. Our experts take a look at how to play this complex new landscape.

Highlights from the week of June 20 – June 26, 2025.

Markets are holding steady despite mounting uncertainty, as investors, the Fed, and corporate America wait for clarity on fiscal policy and the direction of the economy.

Value investing is often synonymous with finding ‘cheap’ stocks. But cheap doesn’t always mean a bargain. We go beyond traditional valuation measures using a more expansive framework to target attractively valued companies through both a value-creation and quality lens.

We are closely monitoring developments, but our base case is a minimal economic impact, especially with the Fed able to support growth with rate cuts.

Despite significant market volatility and policy shifts, the U.S. economy enters a new paradigm with a solid foundation.

Decoding the decumulation phase requires a range of products and solutions to support participants who are approaching, entering and in retirement.

American workers are suffering from a decline in confidence that they will be sufficiently prepared for retirement — and they’re looking to their employers for help.

The current market environment offers allocators the chance to capitalize on earnings quality and an innovation cycle in large cap equities, as well as attractive yields with manageable risk and some recession protection in investment grade credit.