Insights

Separately managed accounts can offer the advantage of greater control of your tax liabilities through strategies such as tax-loss harvesting and tax-loss swapping.

Investment managers confronting challenges of a more complex and competitive municipal bond trading environment must develop, deploy and continually refine new tools and technologies.

Influences spanning government, regulatory and trade policy, market technicals and sector fundamentals shaped the municipal bond market through June 2025.

Municipal bond investors would be remiss to ignore the impact of state and local taxes on an appropriate mix of in- and out-of-state bonds in their portfolios.

We see the Energy Supply Financing Ratio as an emerging and potentially important signal of how financial institutions are navigating the low-carbon transition.

We believe payout ratio is a critical metric in evaluating dividend-paying securities and avoiding the potential pitfalls associated with targeting solely high dividend yield.

We believe that investors may place too much emphasis on high absolute dividend yield when seeking defensive and high income-generating equity exposure.

There are important limitations to relying solely on total return—primarily that not all returns are created equal.