Voya Views: Is Fed tapering more of a mole hill than a mountain?
Our take on the Fed tapering announcement from our own Justin McWhorter, CFA, CPA, Senior Portfolio Manager of Structured Finance.
Now that yields have reset higher, bonds are positioned to protect portfolios while delivering higher income.
Floating-rate income and the secured nature of senior loans may provide a valuable defense against both rising rates and higher default risk for investors able to stomach short-term volatility.
The prospect of rising real interest rates favors value versus growth stocks, while moderating economic growth and persistent inflation favor inexpensive stability value names over well-priced cyclicals.
Our take on the Fed tapering announcement from our own Justin McWhorter, CFA, CPA, Senior Portfolio Manager of Structured Finance.
The breadth and depth of Environmental, Social, and Governance data that investors currently have at their disposal is “a good problem to have”, as it highlights the normative sea-change over the past decade towards a now crucial commitment that companies must make to ESG transparency. Machine learning can help in discerning – and when necessary, creating - signal from noise.
While growth in the U.S and globally is expected to cool from its torrid pace in 1H21, fundamentals remain broadly positive and opportunities could arise in any meaningful bout of spread volatility.
What can you do to protect your portfolio from over-extended equity valuations? Christina Bargeron, CFA and Gareth Shepherd from our Equity team discuss how machine intelligence investing could be the solution.
Though the inflation debate continues, we concur with the Federal Reserve that price increases will be manageable. We believe the Fed can conduct monetary operations along its well communicated path, paving the way for reaccelerating, above-trend 4Q21 real GDP growth.
While growth in the U.S and globally is expected to cool from its torrid pace in 1H21, fundamentals remain broadly positive and opportunities could arise in any meaningful bout of spread volatility.
Worried about inflation? Pay close attention to how labor market dynamics unfold over the next three months.
Paul Zemsky and Susan Viston from our Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions team discuss what approach to target date design will be best equipped to handle heightened market volatility going forward.
For skeptics who have yet to take the Federal Reserve at its word, its response to recent inflation data should be another indicator that policymakers are in no hurry to deviate from their path of easy monetary policy.
The transition of financial markets from USD LIBOR to the secured overnight financing rate (SOFR) has proven to be a complex process...