Viewpoints from John Hancock Investment Management
One of the industry's most highly regarded multimanagers, dedicated to finding proven portfolio teams with specialized expertise for every fund we offer, then applying vigorous investment oversight to ensure that those funds continue to meet our uncompromising standards
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Target date: strategic, tactical and active management
While strategic management primarily dictates the process behind target-date funds, there are opportunities within market cycles to use active management that can have some tactical elements.
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Decision economics: don't let political uncertainty obscure your long-term goals
Another presidential election means the predictions and parallels to past elections are already rolling in. The question for investors is, does it really matter who wins?
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Investing for the next presidential cycle: macro trumps policy
Despite the radically different policies, the second Obama administration and the Trump administration showed largely similar overall stock performance as well as by individual sectors. We review this phenomenon here.
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Prepping for college in the new normal
With COVID-19 shutting down sports teams, field trips, and other school events, it’ll be more difficult for high school students to participate in the extracurricular activities that help set them apart in the college admissions hunt. Here are 4 tips about what's important now.
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Target-date funds: enabling investors to focus on the hard work of saving for retirement
Target date funds can get investors started on saving and keep them saving, helping them fight the tendencies to be too aggressive in rising markets and too panicky in falling ones.
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Multifactor ETFs: focus on portfolio construction, not factor timing
We believe multifactor ETFs are best used as strategic portfolio construction tools for long-term investors.
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What happens in a recession?
Recessions are neither common nor rare. Some predictions of them prove inaccurate. Other times recessions can result in significant damage to the economy and markets.
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What investors need to know about today's market volatility and the VIX
Stock market volatility spiked in the first half of 2020. We explore this turbulence and the VIX, the most common benchmark for measuring stocks’ peaks and valleys.
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The best of both worlds: convertible bonds and the stable growth objective
Convertible bonds offer an attractive hybrid combination of growth, income, and relative safety in a time when cautious investors are looking for all three.
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Sending your child off to college in a pandemic?
While some universities have announced their plans for the fall, many haven’t ironed out all the details in the new normal of a global pandemic. We examine some of the key questions and considerations for both freshmen and returning students.
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