Investment Perspectives

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High-Yield Bonds And The Credit Cycle

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More speculative issuance has increased in the high-yield bond market, but we do not find it broad-based enough to offset broader credit quality dynamics...

Water: A Complex And Precious Resource

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In managing the Essex Global Environmental Opportunities Strategy (GEOS), we invest across nine clean technology themes. A key GEOS theme is water, which is a complex and precious resource.

Ride The Yield Curve

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Recent events in Cyprus coupled with higher valuations among lower-rated bonds illustrate that high-quality bonds can still play a role in investor portfolios.

Dow: The Great And Powerful

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The Dow stands 115 percent higher than it did four years ago. However, we can not disregard the stocks behind the curtain of the great and powerful Dow.

S&P 500, Oil, & the Dollar (Excerpt)

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Since the start of the year, institutional investors seem to have stopped reacting to headline risk as quickly and intensely as they did since the start of the bull market.

Three Trends Will Shake American Businesses Out Of Paralysis

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On-shoring, energy infrastructure reinvestment and plant replacement are three trends in the making that will shake American business out of paralysis.

Old Acquaintances

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  The re-emergence of European risks and domestic fiscal policy uncertainty helped Treasuries post their strongest weekly performance since last November...

Political Change Brings New Optimism In Japan

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Having underperformed global developed equity markets by nearly nine percentage points in 2012, and having produced among the weakest rates of economic growth in the developed world for much longer...

Gasoline Prices Racing Toward Danger Zone

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Do you feel like you are paying too much for gasoline? At least you did not have to fill up for the Daytona 500.

Borrowing Costs

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According to Dan Fuss, the fixed-income market is more “overbought” than at any time in his 55-year career as he prepares to open a fund to British individual investors.

No Love For Bonds

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High-quality bonds remain unloved in financial markets in 2013.

Will 2013 Be The Year Of Biofuel?

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Since they went public in 2010, the performance of second-generation biofuel companies has been staggeringly poor. But there is hope on the horizon.

U.S. to “Win” Currency Wars?

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Currency Wars will most importantly play out at the heart of investors' portfolios rather than in the blogoshere or on TV.

Return Of The LBO

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Increasing merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, the threat of leveraged buy-outs (LBOs), and the risk they pose of removing cash safety nets while imposing more debt on corporate balance sheets has...

Currency Wars Are Evil

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The illusory benefit of a weaker currency is to boost corporate earnings as companies increase their exports.

High-Yield - Opportunity In A Crowded Space

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We have seen something interesting unfold over the last month in the markets – signs of what we believe are the beginning of a Treasury breakout.

Despite Misconceptions, Clean Tech Takes Hold

While misconceptions regarding the state of clean tech investing have run rampant, we believe the long-term case for new and clean energy technology grows stronger by the day.

Great Rotation

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The jump in Lipper's weekly equity mutual funds inflows since the start of the year has sparked some chatter about a "great rotation" out of bonds and into stocks.

The Energy Equation

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The hurdles for clean technology (clean tech) equities have been steep and numerous lately...

Will Resolution of the Fiscal Cliff Squelch Consumption?

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The U.S. averted the Fiscal Cliff with passage of the "American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012" on December 31.

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