DIAL News and Press, Columbia Diversified Fixed Income Allocation From 11/17/20

Seven conservative mutual funds and one exchange-traded fund are evaluated for defensive performance. The shortlist of funds is TMSRX, HSTRX, GAVIX, ADVNX, AEDNX, COTZX, FIXD, and SUBFX. These funds were selected from my last article on Seeking Alpha and shortlisted based on Port...

With consistent three-year returns, DIAL achieves five-star Overall Morningstar Rating TM Columbia Threadneedle Investments today announced that the Columbia Diversified Fixed Income Allocation ETF (NYSE Arca: DIAL), the first strategic beta multisector fixed income ETF,...

We remain neutral on equities overall. But believe global markets are likely to continue to trend higher. Investors must look forward to 2021 and from around Q221 the prospect of increasing availability of vaccines. For further details see: Global Perspectives - Cyclical...

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The solution now to the enormously ballooning debts in developed economies: Firing up consumer price inflation and letting it run hot, according to the newest dogma trotted out incessantly by the Fed and other central banks, and hope that rapid economic growth will take care of the rest. The...

By Darren Williams & Guy Bruten The COVID-19 pandemic has caused enormous dislocations in the world economy in a shockingly short time. The wave of policy support unleashed in response has stabilized activity, but it has also inflated an already sizable debt overhang. Governments now f...

After months of plummeting yields, 10-year government bonds experienced a sell-off in August. Leading the pack was the UK's 10-year Gilt yield, which closed the month 22 basis points higher at 0.31%. The country's economy entered its deepest recession on record, as gross domestic product plung...

By Daniel Lacalle According to the International Monetary Fund ((IMF)), global fiscal support in response to the crisis will be more than $9 trillion, approximately 12 percent of world GDP. This premature, clearly rushed, probably excessive, and often misguided chain of so-called stimu...

Jens Van 't Klooster is a postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven and is also a member of the research group, A New Normative Framework for Financial Debt at the University of Amsterdam. Jens has recently coauthored an article titled *The Myth of Market Neutrality: A Comparative Study of the Europea...

Among this week's highlights indicating emerging market focus on accessing long-term debt are a 30-year issue for the Emirate of Sharjah and plans by Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem (BAK) to raise hybrid debt, following recent perpetual sales by Emirates NBD, Banorte (GBOOF) and DP Wor...