Midyear can be an ideal opportunity for investors to re-evaluate their portfolios and consider rebalancing to align with their ideal asset allocation. As the midpoint of 2025 passes, the U.S. stock market has delivered a mixed bag of performance across sectors, driven largely...
International equities have stood out in an uncertain 2025, providing diversification and a big boost to portfolios amid tariff uncertainty. That said, not all equities strategies are created equal. A cheap, passive international equities ETF has its merits, of course, but could have...
Broad macro uncertainty and the implications of U.S. tariffs weighed on private equity M&A this summer. Although M&A activity declined in July, interest rate cuts could provide a significant boost to private equity activity looking ahead. Public companies aren’t the only ones feeling...
It’s no secret that foreign equities have been a big performance driver for U.S. investors in 2025. From Europe to Asia, Africa to South America, foreign equities have helped domestic portfolios provide for investors so far this year. However, simply allocating to a...
Beaten down mostly by a supply gut and slow adoption for electric vehicles (EVs), supply disruptions globally have been re-charging interest in lithium again. Making recent news, battery maker Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) suspended operations in China (the Yichun project). According to a...
Northern Trust Asset Management has launched three new fixed income exchange-traded fund (ETF) suites, catering to fixed income investors looking for laddering strategies that focus specifically on municipal and inflation-linked bonds as well as those looking for core muni options to complement a...