
Investing Insights
GWI presents an approach to combining managers within the same asset class to reduce volatility while also enhancing investment returns.
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Maestro If You Please - Combining differentiated managers within a single asset class for improved consistency
GWI presents an approach to combining managers within the same asset class to reduce volatility while also enhancing investment returns.
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2020 Year-In-Review - A retrospective of an infamous year
Reminiscent of Disneyland’s Mr. Toad’s Wild Ride, the economy and investment markets fluctuated wildly, free-falling during the second quarter only to swing back upward and end the year in record territory.
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Pegged - 2020 was a record shattering year. What will 2021 bring?
Hope on the horizon? After an unprecedented 2020, here are eight reasons why 2021 could represent a return to more normal economic times.
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Election Night 2020
Great-West Investments examined the outcomes of past presidential election results and summarizes the stock market performance for each election outcome scenario.
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Active & Passive Fixed Income - Lessons learned from the Pandemic
The ability of active fixed-income managers to identify and take measured risks — in terms of credit, duration and perhaps even a few esoteric, out-of-benchmark sector bets — may prove to be keys to success in the post-COVID-19 environment.
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Whither the 60/40 Portfolio?
GWI questions the efficacy of the traditional 60/40 balanced portfolio in the current environment.
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Unprecedented
GWI examines the unprecedented disparity between Growth stock and Value stocks and surmises that it may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for value investors.
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Rivers, Market Volatility and Whipsaws
GWI examines recent stock market volatility and illustrates how mechanical trading models would have underperformed a buy-and-hold strategy through the COVID-19 crisis.
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Managing your portfolio during volatile times
Examines historical market declines and illustrates the resiliency of the markets.
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Game plan for managing investment market volatility
Provides a game plan for managing your portfolio during periods of extreme volatility.
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Ghost in the machine – Pairing artificial and human intelligence
Discusses how quantitative investment strategies such as big data and machine learning can co-exist with traditional active portfolio selection to provide better diversification and portfolio efficiencies.
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Capital market assumptions – Peeking inside the crystal ball
This piece discusses how GWI generates and utilizes capital market assumptions to reflect our forward-looking beliefs, risks and return potential for the asset classes in which we invest.
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Invest with style
GWI examines the dominant out-performance of the growth style of investing relative to value over the past decade.