DIAL News and Press, Columbia Diversified Fixed Income Allocation From 12/13/20

Over 300 no load mutual funds available to small investors, nearly 200 exchange-traded funds, and over a dozen closed-end funds representing 120 Lipper Categories are ranked. The funds are ranked based on Risk, Risk Adjusted Performance, Momentum, Quality, Yield, and Consistency. ...

To address the breadth of possibilities that lie ahead in this environment, our global outlook for 2021 includes a base case, an upside scenario, and a downside scenario. In our base-case scenario, we expect equities to outperform fixed income as growth moves above trend, the global e...

We expect the global economy to rebound strongly next year. But structural headwinds remain. Will the post-pandemic bounce trigger a durable and broad-based global reflation? For further details see: Will 2021 Mark The Launch Of A Durable Global Recovery?

Releasing two top December stocks from the MDA Growth and Dividend Breakout portfolio and two top samples from the November portfolio. The November portfolio completes the first month +15.33% led by United Microelectronics +31.5% and ViacomCBS +22.7%. The 11 long-term portfolios r...

The Bank of England and Fed have scope to double QE programs. But using GFC playbook in a liquidity trap may have little impact, as BoJ found. Evidence on the efficacy of negative interest rates is also mixed. COVID-19-bond financed stimulus is unlimited in size and not tempor...

The world economy has really been rocking, and we've been talking about this since the summer, as can be seen by looking at global business activity, PMIs. Copper prices are near four-year highs and have continued to rally through the last several months. And unemployment has really b...

COVID's precision-like timing was supernatural - nothing short of sinister. A once-in-a-century international pandemic surfacing in the waning days of an unrivaled global financial bubble. According to the IIF, U.S. debt is on course to expand about 13% this year to $80 trillion. As a...

We now have $16.9 trillion of negative yielding debt bouncing around the world. China has joined the crowd and just sold negative yielding debt in Europe. Virtually everyone supposes that this type of magic will not take place in the United States. For further details see: ...

Global equity market cap has certainly had its ups and downs, but over time the annualized growth rate of this statistic is about 7%. The market cap of global equities today is about 60% higher than it was in late March at the height of the Covid panic. Chart #4 below shows how th...

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...