Category: Investing

Key insights:

• The amount of global bonds trading at negative yields continues to rise and has accelerated recently.
• There are a number of reasons why investors continue to hold and purchase bonds with negative yields.
• Rate and credit volatility are likely to continue, offering opportunities for active fixed-income investors to source alpha and manage risk.

This blog post originally ran as an Institute Alert commentary by Darrell Cronk, CFA, President, Wells Fargo Investment Institute and Chief Investment Officer, Wealth and Investment Management.

This blog post originally ran as a State of the Markets commentary by Darrell Cronk, CFA, President, Wells Fargo Investment Institute and Chief Investment Officer, Wealth and Investment Management.

The ESG world is complex: How do you combine investment objectives and ESG preferences?

Before arriving in Brazil (and after the seven inoculations I had to get before traveling), I thought hard about what to expect from my first trip to a Latin American country. Would I see poverty next to wealth? Would people be accepting of foreign visitors? What if I got lost in São Paolo?

This blog post originally ran as a State of the Markets commentary by Darrell Cronk, CFA, President, Wells Fargo Investment Institute and Chief Investment Officer, Wealth and Investment Management.

China recently released a new trade report amidst the hotly debated issue of U.S./China trade relations. What might China’s new data mean for the markets and investors? To learn more, we interviewed Elaine Tse, Portfolio Manager for the SF Global Emerging Markets Team. Watch the video.

Twenty years after my first visit to Moscow, I see the pieces coming together for a Russian IT success story: a new and thriving e-commerce industry. Here’s an inside look at my visit to the headquarters of a Russian social media giant.

The current U.S. economic expansion has hit the 10-year mark. As it continues to age, many equity investors could become increasingly uneasy about the amount of leverage in their portfolios.