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Neil Jeffery is the EVP Head of U.S. Business. Having worked with Asset TV in the UK since the company’s inception in 2003, in 2012 he crossed The Pond to establish Asset TV Inc. in NY.

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A graduate from Binghamton University, BA, and Pace University, MBA, he was one of the first to join Asset TV Inc.

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Other Featured Videos Fidelity’s Q1 2016 Market Update: Will the global economy stabilize in 2016?

BREAKING THE MOLD OF TRADITIONAL INVESTMENT STRATEGIES Frank Muller, Provasi Capital Partners What do you think is preventing investors from actually achieving their financial goals?

In my opinion, their fear/greed impulse kicks in where people tend to buy at the top and they sell at the bottom. They’re being proffered this basic idea that they can allocate capital, 60% stocks, 40% bonds, and that’s the pathway to financial salvation.

What does Provasi do differently?

Provasi is built around the idea of challenging that notion, that financial science didn’t begin and end with a 60/40 stock bond allocation, and that there are other return streams that are vital to creating a portfolio that helps people sustain themselves through retirement.

So the basic idea behind the franchise is to provide access to managers and strategies, package them in the right way, and distribute them into the right channels of capital.

What does diversification mean to Provasi?

So what’s really interesting is

that when you begin to expand the notion of diversification, you have to move into that world of alternative investments.

$880,000. You will look at that and go, “That’s not what I expected from diversification.”

I believe that advisors are looking for an independent voice, a judgment as to manager selection, portfolio construction, strategies that can provide real diversification benefits, and to transfer that information into the marketplace in a succinct, compelling, and informative way.

So what if you just do things a little differently? What if you just take 75% of the portfolio, put it in that 60/40 model but take 10 other strategies, 2½% in each? In 2002 and 2008, the same drawdowns are in the single digits. Your account value is worth well over a million dollars, in fact, it’s worth about $230,000 more.

What is the problem with the traditional 60/40 model?

What do you see in the future for financial advisors?

Since 2000, the average investor has had a return of around 2½%2.7% on their money. We’ve got to ask ourselves, why is that occurring? It’s the traditional model: Assume your retirement portfolio has a balance of a million dollars in 2000, and it’s allocated 60% in stocks and 40% in bonds. At the end of the year, you begin to withdraw 4% annually and factor in increases 3% a year for inflation.

You know what’s really interesting about this, when you talk with financial advisors; they have access to thousands of managers and strategies. But they need help sorting through them.

Here’s the problem: In 2008 that account’s down 2728%. At the end of 2014 your million dollars is worth around

I think that over the next 1020 years, financial advisors are going to start to ask very important questions. Who do I turn to for independent advice about how to build better portfolios and access great managers? We think Provasi will be part of that.

Dirk Hofschire, Senior Vice President of the Asset Allocation Research Team, shares Fidelity’s insights on the global economic and financial market developments in Q4, and provides a look ahead to 2016.

Leveraging long/short strategies to help reduce volatility impact

Mihir Meswani, portfolio manager of Deutsche Strategic Equity Long/Short Fund, discusses areas of opportunity globally given today’s consumer and other trends and how a longshort strategy can help diminish potential downside exposure.

Tax loss harvesting opportunities using ETFs

Adam Patti, CEO of IndexIQ, explains how the ETF structure can help investors mitigate tax losses as well as take advantage of volatility in the marketplace.

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2016 TEN PREDICTIONS FROM BOB DOLL Investors See Glimmers of Hope Along a Rocky Path

Bob Doll, Nuveen Lead Portfolio Manager and Chief Equity Strategist

Believing that the U.S. and global economy will regain some strength in 2016, and inflation in the developed world, especially in the U.S., will pick up some on the back of wage-rate growth, we believe interest rates will move up somewhat.

Heading into an uncertain 2016, Bob Doll, Nuveen Lead Portfolio Manager and Chief Equity Strategist, sheds some light on what’s to be expected in his top 10 predictions for the new year.

With a slow-growth environment on

the horizon, Bob Doll offers his key insight on such topics as interest rates, high yield spreads, consumer spending, foreign equities, and the impact geopolitics play on the market. While there are many factors financial experts should be concerned with in 2016, Bob Doll offers plenty of silver linings to look for as well, ensuring this will be a year that will keep investors on their toes.

Never before has growth been as slow as we anticipate it will be in 2016, and as it has been for the last 9 years. This will be the 10th year in a row where we have sub-par both real and nominal growth.

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Perhaps the most significant headwind in 2015 of the U.S. stock market was the decline in earnings expectations. We expect some reversal in 2016.

It is very rare for the U.S. stock market to have single digit moves in back-to-back years, whether there’s a plus or a minus sign in front of the number. This could be that 2 year period.

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2015 was an interesting year in that stocks, bonds, and cash were all up, but by a very small amount. For the end of the year, stocks did beat bonds and bonds did beat cash, and we expect that stocks will win the race again.

If there’s any good news in these it’s that most of the time, markets have a little blip when something happens and then go back to normal. Our guess is there will be more blips, but we will continue to go back to normal.

For most of the last 5 or 6 years, U.S. stocks beat non-U.S. stocks and U.S. bonds beat non-U.S. bonds. We think we are at the beginning of a switch in that paradigm.

With the bill signed by the congress and the president in the 4th quarter of 2015, our era of fiscal austerity is likely over, and the deficit will start moving up the other direction.

Every year we have a prediction that pits several sectors against some other sectors, and our view is that it’s going to be fairly similar to last year, that is, the resource-based sectors that require pricing power are not likely to lead the parade.

Our view is if the Republicans nominate the right candidate, whoever that is, and unite behind that person, there’s a chance they can beat Hillary Clinton. If they remain fractured as they currently are with so many running for president, Hillary will be elected president, most likely.

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“The US economy and the world economy is in a position where it should continue to grow next year, and in fact, it should grow a little bit faster next year than this year.”

How would you rate the impact of the Fed’s decision to raise rates?

All of the teeth gnashing over whether or not the Fed should do anything, in our view, at least for the first 25 basis points, the only direct impact that really matters is on the value of the US dollar because we do have this certainly disjointed or off-centered relationship with other major world currencies.

In fact, the manufacturing base, particularly for exports and those that compete most actively with imports, is being damaged by what’s happened with the rally in the dollar. In terms of measuring an impact, it’s hard to measure the impact of a single 25 basis point increase. The only place you

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“Companies that have increased their dividend or at least maintained their dividends, have outperformed companies that have cut their dividend or do not pay a dividend at all.”

can really see it is in the value of the dollar.

Where do you see the US and global economies heading?

The US economy and the world economy is in a position where it should continue to grow next year, and in fact, it should grow a little bit faster next year than this year. China, India, parts of South East Asia, and also parts of Africa are expected to be the fastest growing parts of the world economy. In the IMF forecast, it states that the world economy will grow about half a percent faster next year than this year.

On the inflation front, inflation is not a clear and present danger in the United States.

“Markets go through dislocation, they are recipients of a variety of stimuli and ultimately the market will adjust to its fundamental value.”

The Fed does see inflation inching up higher next year, as some of the transitory effects of low energy prices and some others work their way out of the system.

How does risk change in a Fed tightening regime?

For a fixed income investor, obviously we have individual bond risk, but we also have this concept of portfolio risk. The question of ‘where can things go wrong?’ is in many ways a macro question, and as we look at it today, and we talk about slow increases in interest rates, moderate growth, all these other things going on, one of the things that strikes us is that there are signs of wage pressures in the economy.

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The excessive supply of labor has undoubtedly been shrinking and the price of labor has undoubtedly been increasing. That’s particularly important against the backdrop of slow growth.

Profit margins could come under pressure if you have slow growth and rising labor costs. It’s something we’re on the lookout for, and I’m not suggesting that is the dominant scenario, but that’s where we think some of the risk lies today.

How has the world changed since the last Fed tightening in 2006?

I would say that a big part of the growth rate of this expansion being slower than that of the prior one can be attributed to the lack of input from the housing sector.

Looking more globally, it’s the size of emerging market economies relative to developed economies in the world

today. If you look at incremental growth, in a good year, China and India can contribute almost half of the incremental world growth of the economy.

That did not use to be the case.

I think another really important change is that once upon a time, if the Fed raised interest rates, chances were that monetary policy at the global level was tilted in the same direction of what the Fed had done because of the size of the US role in the international financial system.

Today, we have other central banks that are going in a different direction.

What is your opinion on the energy sector, specifically what we’re seeing with oil?

I think there’s a positive dynamic that’s totally under-communicated. If you run through some simple math, the decline in oil prices is worth 2 trillion

US dollars to global consumers.

The other thing that’s worth mentioning is the US has become a significant oil producer. The good news there is that we are a very efficient energy producer, and the US energy industry employs approximately 400,000 people. It’s tiny in a nation of 330 million citizens. We have 400,000 Uber drivers now. So it gives you some idea about the change in the economy.

If you drive around the country, you see people filling up giant SUVs for $50, and then on Friday night going out to a bar or restaurant. We firmly believe it is a net stimulative impact. Now having said that, savings rates are going up, people are saving a little more carefully, so we haven’t seen the full effect, but in fact, at least the basis is positive, not negative.

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The Fed’s New Path

Insight into Action: US Technology

Matt Tucker - Head of iShares Americas Fixed Income Strategy

Heidi Richardson - Global Investment Strategist for BlackRock

Matt Tucker comments on the Fed’s decision to raise rates and

Heidi Richardson explains why investing in the US technology

offers his outlook for investors in the coming year.

sector is a smart move.

iThinking: Rising Rates – Prepare Your Bond Portfolio

iThinking: Rising Rates – Opportunities in Stocks

Matt Tucker - Head of iShares Americas Fixed Income Strategy

Heidi Richardson - Global Investment Strategist for BlackRock

Matt Tucker shares his insight on how to reduce risk in a bond

Heidi Richardson explains how to mitigate volatility in a bond portfolio

portfolio, despite the impact of a rising rate economy.

in a rising rate environment, and shares her thoughts on potential opportunities in equities.

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INSIGHT INTO ACTION: RISING INTEREST RATES Key Takeaways  The Fed has indicated that it will begin raising interest rates in the near-term  Rates are expected to rise gradually, and are likely to remain low for a long period of time  For well-prepared investors, rising interest rates may present opportunities

Not your father’s rate hike

Heidi Richardson, CPM Managing Director

After more than six years, the Fed is finally poised to end its zero-interest-rate policy and embark on its first rate hiking cycle in nearly a decade. It’s a move that global markets have been anticipating for some time.

Heidi Richardson is the Head of Investment Strategy for U.S. iShares and the lead investment strategist for iThinking.

This is no ordinary interest rate cycle, however. While rate hikes have traditionally sought to cool an overheating economy, today the Fed is attempting to “normalize” rates from their extraordinarily low levels since the financial crisis. The Fed has also signaled that rate increases will be gradual, which should keep interest rates below historic averages for some time.

As the chart below illustrates, even though prices of bonds in the Barclays U.S. 1-3 Year Credit Bond Index fell during the last rising rate cycle, income payments more than offset this loss to generate a positive total return.

React, don’t overreact

A thoughtfully-allocated, diversified portfolio can help investors reduce the impact of rising rates as well as capture growth potential.

Prepare your bond portfolio

With a rate hike on the horizon, many investors are concerned with how their bond portfolios will perform. Remember that bonds have two sources of risk: interest rate and credit risk. While it’s true that bond prices fall as rates rise, two actions may help provide protection.  Shorten duration Bonds with higher duration (a measure of sensitivity to interest rates) generally have had greater potential for losses when rates rise. Shortening the duration of your bond portfolio can potentially help manage losses due to rising interest rates.  Focus on credit exposure Seek a better balance of risk and reward by focusing on credit exposure. Corporate bonds typically provide additional yield over Treasuries.

Combining these actions can be an effective way to navigate a rising rate environment.

Barclays U.S. 1-3 Year Credit Bond Index performance (June 2004 – June 2006)

Growth of $100

While many may fear rising rates, there may be an upside. The Fed has been signaling plans to raise rates for over a year, and markets have been adjusting in preparation for it. When rates do rise, we expect increased volatility, but believe it may be shortterm. Rising rates reflect a healthier, growing economy, and the Fed has pledged to act only if the U.S. economy appears resilient enough to withstand it.

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Index performance returns do not reflect any management fees, transaction costs or expenses. Indexes are unmanaged and one cannot invest directly in an index. Past performance does not guarantee future results. Index returns do not represent actual iShares Fund performance. For actual fund performance, please visit www.iShares.com or www.blackrock.com

Funds such as the following provide short duration corporate / credit exposure:

FLOT

iShares Floating Rate Bond ETF

NEAR

iShares Short Maturity Bond ETF (Active)

CSJ

iShares 1-3 Year Credit Bond ETF

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Look for potential opportunities in stocks

Focus on well-positioned sectors in a rising rate cycle

Consider new sources of income

In a rising rate environment, debt-laden sectors, such as utilities and telecom, tend to underperform cash-rich sectors,1 like technology. Additionally, more reasonably valued cyclical sectors, such as technology and financials, may benefit from a strengthening U.S. economy.

High dividend payers have become quite expensive in comparison to the broad US market5 and may come under pressure as rates rise. In a rising rate environment, dividend growers could potentially outperform high dividend stocks based on their more reasonable valuations.6 In contrast, a dividend growth strategy may offer:

 The technology sector has generally been a beneficiary of an improving economy2 and, as the only sector in the S&P 500 with more cash than debt,3 could be less affected by increased borrowing costs.  Financials currently have a price-to-book ratio of about half of the broad U.S. market,4 and could potentially benefit from rising rates by capturing a bigger spread (profit) on the rates at which they loan money.

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Funds such as the following may provide opportunities in a rising interest rate cycle:

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iShares Core Dividend Growth ETF

IYW

iShares U.S. Technology ETF

IYG

iShares U.S. Financial Services ETF

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Revenues for Diversified Financials through Rate Cycles

 A higher allocation to cyclical sectors that have the potential to grow alongside the economy  Exposure to companies that have the potential to sustainably grow and increase dividends over time

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Carefully consider the Funds' investment objectives, risk factors, and charges and expenses before investing. This and other information can be found in the Funds' prospectuses or, if available, the summary prospectuses which may be obtained by visiting www.iShares.com or www.blackrock.com. Read the prospectus carefully before investing.

Investing involves risk, including possible loss of principal.

Funds that concentrate investments in a single sector will be more susceptible to factors affecting that sector and more volatile than funds that invest in many different sectors. There is no guarantee that any fund will pay dividends. Technology companies may be subject to severe competition and product obsolescence. Performance of companies in the financials sector may be adversely impacted by many factors, including, among others, government regulations, economic conditions, credit rating downgrades, changes in interest rates, and decreased liquidity in credit markets.

1. Source: Bloomberg, as of 07/13/15 2. Source: Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research, as of 6/11/15 3. Source: Bloomberg, as of 8/23/15 4. Source: Bloomberg, as of 8/23/15 5. Source: Bloomberg, as of 8/23/15 6. Source: SocGen. Based on the MSCI World Index quarterly annualized real returns between 3/31/86 – 03/31/15 The information presented does not take into consideration commissions, tax implications, or other transaction costs, which may significantly affect the economic consequences of a given strategy or investment decision.

This document contains general information only and does not take into account an individual's financial circumstances. This information should not be relied upon as a primary basis for an investment decision. Rather, an assessment should be made as to whether the information is appropriate in individual circumstances and consideration should be given to talking to a financial advisor before making an investment decision.

The information included in this material has been taken from trade and other sources considered to be reliable. We do not represent that this information is accurate and complete, and it should not be relied upon as such. Any opinions expressed in this material reflect our analysis at this date and are subject to change. The information and opinions contained in this material are derived from proprietary and nonproprietary sources deemed by BlackRock to be reliable, but are not guaranteed as to accuracy.

This material is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, accounting, legal Fixed income risks include interest-rate and credit risk. Typically, when interest rates rise, or tax advice. You should consult your tax or legal adviser regarding such matters. there is a corresponding decline in bond values. Credit risk refers to the possibility that the The Funds are distributed by BlackRock Investments, LLC (together with its affiliates, bond issuer will not be able to make principal and interest payments.

“BlackRock”).

Actively managed funds do not seek to replicate the performance of a specified index. Actively ©2015 BlackRock. All rights reserved. iSHARES, BLACKROCK and iTHINKING are managed funds may have higher portfolio turnover than index funds. registered and unregistered trademarks of BlackRock. All other marks are the property of This material represents an assessment of the market environment at a specific time, is their respective owners. subject to change, and is not intended to be a forecast of future events or a guarantee of iS-16364-0915 future results. This information should not be relied upon by the reader as research or investment advice regarding the funds or any security in particular.

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Trending on assettv.com Volatility

Volatility Creates Opportunities

Realized Volatility Indices: Measuring Market Risk

David Herro – Deputy Chairman, Portfolio Manager and CIO at Harris Associates L.P.

Craig Lazzara - Global head of index investment strategy at S&P Dow Jones Indices

David Herro – Deputy Chairman, Portfolio Manager and CIO

Watch as Craig Lazzara and Tim Edwards of S&P Dow Jones

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Indices discuss volatility and how it may feature in investment

Management – discusses how recent market volatility is creating

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opportunities for investment.

Navigating High Yield Volatility

Fidelity: Sectors Provide an Opportunity to Help Manage Volatility

Thomas Ray, CFA, NWQ Investment Management Head of Fixed Income

Chris Bartel - Head of Global Equity Research at Fidelity Investments

At the end of a volatile year for the high yield market, Tom Ray,

Chris Bartel, Head of Global Equity Research, shares Fidelity sector

CFA, NWQ Investment Management Head of Fixed Income,

portfolio managers’ views on potential investment opportunities

provides his perspective on what the energy sector had to do with

and the major risks in each sector in 2016.

it and why the high yield selloff may create unique opportunities for income investors.

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Municipal Bonds

Retirement

Key Considerations for Today’s Muni Investors

Reinventing Retirement Income: Is Your Portfolio Retirement Ready?

Joseph Deane - Head of Municipal Bond Portfolio Management

Carl Katerndahl - EVP at Nuveen Investments, Ryan Madigan - SVP Wealth Management Services, Anne Kritzmire - Managing Director Closed-End Funds Tom Streiff - Senior Managing Director Retirement Income at TIAA-CREF

PIMCO experts Joe Deane, David Hammer, Julie Callahan and Sean McCarthy discuss the transformation of the muni market since the financial crisis and key factors investors should not ignore.

Financial experts from Nuveen discuss current key retirement themes such as extended life expectancy, new laws regarding social security, and the yields for various retirement packages.

MacKay Muni 2016 Insights

The Importance of Saving for Retirement

Bob DiMella - Executive Managing Director at MacKay Shields

John Galateria - Head of North America Institutional at J.P. Morgan Asset Management

What do MacKay Municipal Managers believe is a key to

The importance of saving early for millennials as they face a number of headwinds on the journey to retirement.

managing muni portfolios this year? Find out in their “Top Five Municipal Market Insights for 2016.”

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Commodities

Municipal Bonds

Jodie Gunzberg - Global Head of Commodities at S&P Dow Jones Indices

John Miller - Co-Head of Fixed Income at Nuveen Investments

“When you have a shortage of a commodity the only thing that can

“Liquidity ultimately is a function of demand. If the retail base, 70%

bring the market back into equilibrium is the price. It has to trend

of the demand, is still engaged, is still investing, liquidity should be

up by definition. And once it trends up and the producers are doing

fairly good.”

everything they can to drill, mine and grow as fast as they can, and they fill the inventory back up, then the price has to fall.”

Stable Value

Mutual Fund Administration

Warren Howe - National Sales Director of Stable Value Markets at MetLife

Lisa Mougin - SVP, Director of Sales and Relationship Management at ALPS

“All of that together is really going to mute the amount of yield

“So as administrators, trying to be innovative with how we can help

pickup that money markets are going to have relative to stable

clients bring those to market because often their strategies we

value.”

found will be more successful in that structure that has really gained traction.”

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Changing Global Landscape

Defined Contribution

Brian McMahon, CEO and Chief Investment Officer Thornburg Investment Management

Kristen Colvin - Director, MFS Institutional Advisors at MFS

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“We think it’s incredibly important to focus on what can actually move the needle in terms of retirement outcomes.”

the world, say Spain, you have more than 25% of the electricity generated by solar and wind.”

Nuveen on Closed-End Funds

Fixed Income

Anne Kritzmire - Managing Director, Global Structured Products Marketing at Nuveen Investments

Raman Srivastava, CFA - Co-Deputy Chief Investment Officer and Managing Director at Standish Mellon Asset Management Company LLC

“We believe our shareholders really prefer smooth or smoothly

“Increasingly what we’ve seen is a shift to more and more issuance

changing distributions versus big ups and downs. So that’s another

coming outside of the US. The US at this point makes up roughly

factor to try and keep the funds distributions up there even if the

40% of the global fixed income market.”

earnings sort of wander a little bit.”

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REVIEW Videos now on the Invesco Channel How Invesco’s Core Plus investment strategy can be an important diversification tool

IT’S TIME TO BENCH THE BENCHMARKS

Steve Thompson, Invesco Client Portfolio Manager,

Dan Draper, PowerShares Global ETFs and Meggan Walsh, Invesco Dividend Value Team What are some of the issues you have with indexes and benchmarks?

benchmarks may be buying high and selling low. Which is exactly the wrong approach.

Indexes serve a valuable purpose. To be a compass that helps people measure the direction of the market. To serve as a benchmark. To define average. But what traditional indexes were never intended to do was to define what makes a great investment opportunity.

What is Invesco’s approach?

Benchmarks don’t look for ways to boost investors’ exposure to securities that are undervalued.

And benchmarks aren’t able to tap into other qualities overlooked by the market.

They simply follow the herd.

Investing isn’t about achieving average. It’s about achieving goals. This is why Invesco believes it’s time for investors to bench the benchmarks.

Many traditional indexes rely just on market cap. They weight companies on how big they are, not necessarily on how financially strong they are.

What that means is traditional

To us, the right approach means investing with high conviction through actively managed strategies and through smart beta strategies to stay ahead of the herd.

High conviction means we trust our research and have confidence in our investment discipline. We look past the market noise to find the right opportunities at the right price.

We assess the fair market value of companies, the way the management teams allocate their capital and their balance sheets to build portfolios that take into account both risk and returns. High conviction means we’re investors, not indexers.

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explains Invesco’s Core Plus investing strategies across the fixed income spectrum.

Can you explain the benefits of smart beta strategies?

With smart beta strategies, investors get systematic exposure to innovative methodologies.

With exchange-traded funds, this exposure’s based on an index.

But smart beta indexes are not just simple gauges of the market average — they’re built from specific investments with specific characteristics: quality, low volatility, strong fundamentals, and other relevant factors. The beauty of this is investors can mix and match these strategies to pursue their investment goals, not just a benchmark.

So no matter what an investor is trying to achieve — higher returns, lower volatility, or consistent income — Invesco believes that benchmarks shouldn’t dictate their decisions.

Invesco Strategic Income Fund: Exposing investors to global opportunities across fixed income

Mario Clemente, Co-Head of Investment Solutions at Invesco Fixed Income, discusses the strategy behind Invesco’s Strategic Income Fund.

What is Invesco Comstock Fund and the strategy behind it?

Kevin Holt, CIO for US Value Equities at Invesco, opens up about the Comstock Fund strategy of capitalizing on inefficiencies in the market.

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REVIEW Videos now on the Deutsche Asset Management Channel Considering tax swaps as the year end approaches

DEUTSCHE ASSET MANAGEMENT 2016 OUTLOOK AND OPPORTUNITIES

Dodd Kittsley, Head of ETF Strategy for Deutsche Asset Management, offers his advice for investors as 2015 draws to close, and provides some potential investment opportunities for 2016.

Larry Adam, Owen Fitzpatrick, John W. Vojticek, Dodd Kittsley, Deutsche Asset Management What are some of your key themes for 2016?

The first one is that we are entering the late stage of a business cycle, and there’s a couple of things that are important about that. The first one is that historically that part of the cycle tends to be the longest. So that’s a good thing for investors. The bad thing is that when you get into the late cycle, you tend to see much more muted performance.

When you look at the S&P 500, historically it has a return around 7-10%, during the late cycle it’s only about 5.9%. So the important thing here is that during 2016, I think investors have to dull down their expectations of what to expect from their portfolios.

The second key theme throughout 2016 is going to be monetary policy, more importantly the divergence.

It’s the first time The Fed has raised rates in 9 years. And the divergence with its other

counterparts around the world is unprecedented. Clearly that’s going to have repercussions on the equity markets, fixed income, commodities and the dollar.

The third thing just to keep in mind this year is that performance is going to be much more fundamentally driven, and I think that that’s an environment where active money managers start to outperform passive investment vehicles.

What is your outlook for fundamentals within the US at this point?

I think late cycle in general is good for real estate. If you think about different asset classes within real estate, if you have a storage facility or an

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Risk considerations for international investing

apartment, those are benefitting real time from the economy.

But some of the other assets are more what we call lagging cyclicals, so office rents, industrial rents, retail rents…for them, the benefit of the improvement in the economy doesn’t come through the cash flow until later.

So if you look into 2016, we expect earnings growth in sort of the high single digits still across our sector where across the S&P you have much lower earnings growth. So we’re pretty excited about the benefit of sort of late cycles of the real estate companies.

Theresa Brennan, ETF Regional Vice President, discusses the positive performance of currency-hedged investments in 2015 and offers her perspective on international investments for 2016.

Maximizing dividend-paying stocks to boost income

Arne Noack, ETF Product Specialist, discusses the problems facing income-seeking investors in a low-rate environment, while offering possible solutions through ETFs focused on high dividend-yielding stocks.

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SPECIAL FEATURE

AMERICAN FUNDS CHANNEL Videos available on the American Funds Channel

Investment Themes to Watch in 2016

China, U.S. Trade Places as Global Growth Engine

Tim Armour - Portfolio Manager at Capital Group

Rob Lovelace - Portfolio Manager at Capital Group

Portfolio managers Tim Armour and Rob Lovelace discuss investment

Portfolio manager Rob Lovelace offers his perspective on recovery

opportunities in the emerging markets, oil and commodities, health

and growth in China, the U.S., Japan, Europe and the emerging

care and pharmaceuticals, and the internet.

markets.

2016 Fixed-Income Themes: Inflation, Quality

Why Own Bonds in a Rising Rate Environment?

John Smet - Portfolio Manager at Capital Group

Wesley Phoa - Portfolio Manager at Capital Group

Portfolio manager John Smet discusses areas of opportunity he

Portfolio manager Wesley Phoa discusses reasons to own bonds in a

sees for fixed-income investors looking ahead into 2016.

rising rate environment in the context of investor objective.

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Opportunities in 2016 Amid Bumpy U.S. Recovery

Expect Tame Inflation for Foreseeable Future

Tim Armour - Portfolio Manager at Capital Group

Wesley Phoa - Portfolio Manager at Capital Group

American Funds portfolio manager Tim Armour discusses his outlook

Portfolio manager Wesley Phoa offers his outlook for inflation in the

for the U.S. economy and U.S. company growth.

U.S., for both the short and long term.

Capital Group Hiring Where the World Is Going

Could an Energy Rally Be Around the Corner?

Rob Lovelace - Portfolio Manager at Capital Group

Ted Samuels - Portfolio Manager at Capital Group

American Funds portfolio manager Rob Lovelace discusses the

Portfolio manager Ted Samuels discusses opportunities among oil

investment group’s approach to hiring new research associates.

companies today, given Saudi Arabia’s enforcement of supply-anddemand discipline over the global energy market.

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Videos available on the PULSE Channel

Conquering Market Fears through Education

The Virtue of Patience in Investing

David Edwards - President and Wealth Advisor for Heron Financial Group

David Mendels - Past-president and member of the New York Chapter of the FPA, of Creative Financial Concepts, LLC

David discusses the common concerns of investors amidst the

David Mendels offers some sage advice for investors and

current market down-turn, and explains how education and

comments on the unexpected nature of a volatile market.

information can help assuage most fears.

Inside the CFP Profession

What Should Advisors Look for in 2016

Cary Carbonaro - CFP Board Ambassador

Dave Dubendorfer - President, Artemis Wealth Advisors

Cary Carbonaro discusses the changing landscape of the

Dave Dubendorfer of Artemis Wealth Advisors sits down with Asset

financial advisory business and provides some current statistics

TV to discuss his outlook for 2016 and areas he recommends for his

within the profession.

clients as well as investment ideas to avoid.

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Videos available on the ETFs Channel

New Liquidity Rules Mean Big Changes to ETFs

Demystifying Smart Beta for Advisors

David Breck - Managing Director for BNY Mellon

Anthony Davidow - Charles Schwab

David Breck shares his thoughts on the SEC’s proposed liquidity rules

The rapid rise in smart beta strategies left many advisors wondering

and the impact they will most likely have on ETFs.

how they can use these new products.

What Does the Future Hold for ETFs

WhitePaper: The Case for Dividend Quality

Deborah Fuhr - Managing Partner at ETFGI

FlexSharesÂŽ, Managed by Northern Trust

Deborah Fuhr discusses what the future holds for ETFs and where

In this recent environment of falling yields on bonds with interest

the sources of growth lie. Watch to find out how ETF issuers are

rates at or near zero, dividends are especially valued. That is when

using robo-advisors and expanding globally to capture more of

income-seeking investors start to include dividends in their search for

the expanding ETF market.

yield to meet their financial goals.

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