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Charts in a Minute

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A simple visual that can help illustrate technical market perspectives.

Chart in a Minute: Are behavioral finance biases limiting your financial future?

Use this chart as a conversation starter with clients about identifying and treating behavioral finance biases. Approved for client use.
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Omar Aguilar

Omar Aguilar, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Officer of Passive Equity and Multi-Asset Strategies

Fear, greed, and behavioral finance

With COVID-19 clouding the horizon, your clients may be experiencing a range of intense emotions, leading to irrational investing behavior. That’s not surprising, given that major crises are like petri dishes that culture behavioral finance biases.
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Brett Wander

Brett Wander, CFA

Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income

How overreaching for yield may lead to disaster

Some bond investors may have thought themselves sufficiently diversified heading into the global pandemic, only to find that they had ventured too far down the rabbit hole while chasing higher yields.
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Investment insights

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Is fundamental indexing a better way in this market?

Fortune explains the difference between cap-weighted and fundamental index strategies.
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High-quality fixed income wins again

Do actively managed bond strategies offer better risk protection than passively managed bond strategies in market downturns? Data from COVID-19 and the 2008 financial crisis say, “No.”
Brett Wander, CFA
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Fixed income foundations: Four sectors in perspective

Today's environment is provoking some confusion about fixed income. Use this paper as a primer for talking with clients about fixed income opportunities.
Brett Wander, CFA
Investment Insights

Market crises may create diversification opportunities

One potential opportunity is Fundamental Index® strategies, which may help reduce the negative effects of behavioral finance biases that can crop up during a market crisis like COVID-19.
Omar Aguilar, Ph.D.
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The latest from the Schwab Center for Financial Research (SCFR)

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Schwab has acquired assets of Wasmer Schroeder

Charles Schwab announced today that it has completed its asset acquisition of Wasmer, Schroeder, & Company LLC, a leading independent investment manager of fixed income separately managed accounts.
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Schwab index funds, trust bank earn key roles in $375 million private college 529 plan

Charles Schwab announced today its role in the $375 million conversion of Private College 529 Plan, a unique college savings program collectively owned by nearly 300 private colleges and universities nationwide.
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Schwab Expands Low-Cost Access to Fixed Income with Three New Exchange-Traded Funds

Charles Schwab Investment Management, Inc. (CSIM), an asset management arm of The Charles Schwab Corporation, is launching three new fixed income exchange traded funds (ETFs).
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Jonathan de St. Paer

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Omar Aguilar, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President Chief Investment Officer of Passive Equity and Multi-Asset Strategies
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Brett Wander, CFA

Senior Vice President, Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income
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