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By Justin Leverenz , Team Leader and Senior Portfolio Manager, Bhavtosh Vajpayee, CFA, Director, Equity Research China’s experiments in shopping have moved into high gear. The world needs to pay attention. We believe China is ground zero for the future of retail and the West wi...

By Robert Hughes Retail sales and food services jumped 1.6 percent in March, following a 0.2 percent decline in February. Over the past year, they are up 3.6 percent. Core retail sales, which excludes motor vehicles and gasoline, rose 0.9 percent in March following a 0.7 percent decline in...

Is it possible to achieve a 20%+ total annual return in the late stages of a market cycle? Yes, it is - with sector rotation. All it takes is gradually taking profits on the more cyclical names in one's portfolio when they're running hot and shifting into high quality defensive names when th...

The U.S. Week Ahead (Mar 11-15) U.S. economic releases are set to surge in the week ahead, while investors grapple with a long list of uncertainties, including slowing Chinese growth, monetary policy shifts in Europe, as well as trade negotiations and Brexit developments. Among the host...