- A Conversation With Chris Huemmer
Getting Real
As investors grapple with an historic low interest climate, reverberations from stifling Covid-19 protocols and newly emerging economic volatility, prospects for asset growth are, to say the least, a little hazy. One area of growing interest is the prospects for real assets, defined as real estate, infrastructure and natural resources.
read more - A Conversation with Lee Freitag
The New Challenges Of Accumulation
by P.E. Kelley
Longevity has thrown a monkey-wrench into many of our reliable assumptions about building adequate and sustainable retirement income for our clients. The prospect of outliving ones assets, running out of money before running out of breath, has become a frightening possibility for many.
read more - A Conversation With Mike Hunstad
ESG: Investors Awakened
by P.E. Kelley
It is hard to look at any event that occurred during 2020 without it being wholly subsumed by the sheer gravity of the year itself. Still, much did happen while we engaged that other shared experience. For Sustainable Investing, 2020 may in fact prove to be a turning point… when the ESG phenomenon became mainstream.
read more - A Conversation With David Levenson & Neil Sprackling
Closing the U.S. Life Insurance Coverage Gap
The life insurance coverage gap has been growing over the past several decades. Today, there are 102 million uninsured and underinsured Americans. David Levenson, president and CEO of LL Global and Neil Sprackling, president of Swiss Re’s Life & Health US Business, discuss current and future trends.
read more - A Conversation With Abigail Ingalls
Gender lens investing
Gender lens investing
We have invited a guest editor to conduct this month’s Profile. Breckenridge Capital Advisors’ chief marketing officer Dominica Ribeiro interviewed the firm’s senior research analyst, Abigail Ingalls, on the emerging subject of gender-lens investing. Investing with a gender lens seeks to earn positive financial returns while advancing gender equality. Gender lens investing…
read more - A Conversation With David Levenson
Life, Revisited
by P.E. Kelley
Something happened in 2020 that caught the attention of many in the financial planning industry. As the world, its people and its industries began to realize the size and scope of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the subsequent and staggering consequences and challenges it imposed, consumers in the U.S. began to think more seriously about life…
read more - A Conversation With Ann Marie Etergino
ESG And The New Viability
by P.E. Kelley
How does the concept of sustainability translate into profitability for companies that embrace it? Does being green cultivate a new pathway toward market performance? While there is plenty of debate on the subject, portfolios containing companies that score high on environmental, social and governance issues have actually performed quite well. Moreover, they exhibit a curious…
read more - A Conversation With Tom Garretson
A Fixed Recovery
by P. E. Kelley
Measuring the impact of COVID-19 on our economy, indeed on the entire global picture, can be at times illusory. While the damage done is dramatically clear, as nightly headlines reflect alarming levels of loss, panic and uncertainty, a clear road forward is coming into view.
read more - A Conversation With Gina Birchall
Embracing Life
by P. E. Kelley
September is Life Insurance Awareness Month, the embodiment of a strategic effort by numerous industry constituencies to provide a sharper focus on the importance and immutable efficacy of our life insurance products.
read more - A Conversation with Dave Hanzlik
The Art of Proactive Dissuasion
by P.E. Kelley
The effect of market volatility can be disorienting, to say the least, to the point where you may have to proactively dissuade your clients from altering the plans they have in place. So, it is always good practice, but more so in times of crisis, to revisit and reestablish the goals that you have established…
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