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March 11, 2025

How Market Inefficiencies in Closed-End Funds Create Opportunities for Investors: Accessing the Opportunity (Part 4)

Introduction While market inefficiencies in closed-end ...

March 11, 2025

How Market Inefficiencies in Closed-End Funds Create Opportunities for Investors: The Opportunity (Part 3)

Introduction Market inefficiencies within closed-end ...

March 11, 2025

Considerations for Adding Closed-End Fund Exposure into a Portfolio (Part 2)

Introduction As we have discussed previously, ...

March 11, 2025

Understanding the Risks and Rewards of Closed-End Funds (Part 1)

Introduction Closed-end funds (CEFs) remain an ...

March 7, 2025

Investor Sentiment Shifts: Why Large-Cap Value is Back in Focus

Introduction The market optimism that defined the past ...

February 25, 2025

Major Trend Index (2/7/2025)

Question: “What do the stock market and my wife have ...

February 25, 2025

Major Trend Index (1/31/2025)

The Major Trend Index was unchanged at a Neutral ...

February 14, 2025

Value Investing: Not Dead, Just Playing Possum (Part 1 of 2)

At-a-Glance: Key Takeaways on Value Investing & ...

February 14, 2025

Value Investing: Possum’s Revenge (Part 2 of 2)

At-a-Glance: Key Takeaways on Value Investing & ...

February 11, 2025

Resilience and Opportunity in 2025

Happy New Year! As we reflect on 2024, we entered the ...

February 11, 2025

Fixed Income Lessons from 2024

Fixed Income Insights Another year in the proverbial ...

December 23, 2024

EM Local Debt: Time to Shift the Perspective?

EM local debt has historically offered higher yields ...

December 23, 2024

Three Reasons to Consider European Real Estate Debt

The European real estate market is at the beginning of ...

December 23, 2024

Developed APAC: Capitalizing on a Compelling Growth Story

The developed APAC direct lending market is relatively ...

December 13, 2024

Understanding Style Drift in Perpetual BDCs

The popularity of perpetual BDCs and speed of capital ...

December 13, 2024

U.S. Real Estate: Ready, Set... Go?

Against a backdrop of reduced values, resilient ...

December 13, 2024

Standing Out in IG Credit

Current yields and total return prospects are ...

December 10, 2024

4Q 2024 HCM Technology Sector Overview

The HCM Technology M&A market is experiencing ...

December 10, 2024

China’s New Payments System Threatens US Financial Leadership

Late to the payments race: the US and its allies try ...

December 9, 2024

Major Trend Index (11/2024)

The Major Trend Index was unchanged at a High Neutral ...

December 6, 2024

GLP-1 obesity drugs: Key insights to maximizing Healthcare sector exposure

A catalyst for healthcare innovation and strategic ...

December 6, 2024

Balancing Volatility and Opportunity

Market Standoff Continued During the third quarter, ...

December 2, 2024

Earnings Almanac

The S&P 500’s estimated bottom-up operating EPS ...

December 2, 2024

Rapid payments speed money through the financial system; economic growth follows

Billions of dollars in transaction savings and ...

November 21, 2024

Presidential candidates entice voters with expensive tax breaks

Will tariffs and higher taxes be enough to pay for ...

November 15, 2024

The Falling Leaves, Drift by the Window

October is often a tough month for risk assets. Some ...

October 16, 2024

Elections, the Fed, and Uncertainty: Navigating the Fixed Income Market

Navigating the fixed income market is becoming ...

October 1, 2024

The Cyclical Nature of Large Cap Stocks and Why Large Cap Value Stocks May Be Ready to Take the Lead Again

As an experienced investment advisor, you’re well ...

October 1, 2024

Great Lakes Advisors: A Reliable Partner for Large Cap Value Management

As an investment advisor, you understand the ...

September 19, 2024

Halfway Up the Mountain

“The upper world,” said Hermes indicating the source ...

September 19, 2024

August 2024 Review

August Year-To-Date Macro Markets Stocks In the old ...

August 13, 2024

Leuthold Inflation Watch

With the first monthly drop since July 2022, the ...

August 13, 2024

Leuthold Group Insights Market Commentary: Leuthold Styles, Boxes, and Paradoxes

Leuthold Select Industries is the mutual fund ...

August 13, 2024

Major Trend Index

The Major Trend Index held at a Neutral reading for ...

August 13, 2024

June 2024 Update on the U.S. Economy

From our perspective, recent data has brought the ...

August 8, 2024

Why Large-Cap Value Stocks Could Now Fuel the Market

As an investment advisor, assessing the strength and ...

August 8, 2024

Astor Strategy Review Q2 2024

MARKET NOTABLES: The second quarter was a good one, as ...

August 8, 2024

Perspectives On Large-Cap Value Investing

[A key challenge of investing in large-cap value ...

August 8, 2024

­­The Essential Traits of High-Quality Companies: A Bristol Gate Perspective

At Bristol Gate, we focus on investing in high-quality ...

August 8, 2024

15 Years Back and 15 Years Forward

In May 2024, Bristol Gate celebrated its 15-year ...

August 8, 2024

Equity Market Concentration & Prudent Risk Management

“What’s past is prologue” – Shakespeare, The Tempest ...

August 8, 2024

Investing in a Tech-Driven Market

After 30 years in our current office space, we are ...

August 8, 2024

US debt is headed to unimaginable levels

National debt worries It’s easy to be complacent about ...

August 8, 2024

Investing in the growth of AI

Identifying value in an overheated market requires ...

August 8, 2024

Mesirow Currency Management | 2Q2024 Commentary

US dollar ends second quarter in strong position US ...

August 6, 2024

A Time For Value - Why A Growth-to-Value Rotation is Eminent and How to Take Advantage

As an investment advisor, you understand the ...

April 24, 2024

Investing in Structured Credit A Primer – Part 1 of 6

Structured Credit Overview Structured finance is a ...