by Tina Byles Williams | Apr 20, 2020 | Xponance® Insights
Widespread social distancing has been akin to emergency sedation of global economic activity while the extensive fiscal and monetary stimulus has provided life support.
by Tina Byles Williams | Apr 1, 2020 | Xponance® Press Release 2020, Xponance® Press Release
PHILADELPHIA, PA – FIS Group and its wholly owned subsidiary, Piedmont Investment Advisors, announced today that, effective April 1, 2020, they are rebranding into a newly formed combined corporate entity, Xponance®. The company has $9.5 billion* in assets under management, remains 100% employee owned, and maintains the existing ownership structure…
by Tina Byles Williams | Mar 20, 2020 | Market Insights Alerts, Xponance® Insights
We are in strange and scary times. We are at war with a virus which is all the more deadly in that it cannot be easily discerned but it is metastasizing geometrically. Moreover, COVID-19 and the measures required to contain…
by Tina Byles Williams | Feb 14, 2020 | Market Outlooks
While the U.S. continued its decade-long run, surging ahead another +31% in 2019 to lead all major developed markets (except Switzerland, +32.5%), three emerging markets did even better last year. Taiwan gained +36% as investors reevaluated the “moat” of its market champion, …
by Tina Byles Williams | Jan 22, 2020 | Market Outlooks
During the second half of 2019, the late cycle bull market for financial risk assets sprinted to the finish line despite lackluster global growth. Global markets ended the year on a bullish note, with the U.S. S&P 500 climbing to another record close.