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18-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
How to balance fixed income and equities in your portfolio
Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management's chief portfolio manager of equities, Matt Stuckey, outlines his allocation strategy for equities and fixed income (^TYX, ^TNX, ^FVX) To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination here. bonds that are the drag on your portfolio until they're the thing that saves your portfolio. For our chart of the day, we have a bar chart showing how bonds can protect your portfolio in the event of a recession here. How much bond exposure should you recommend investors have right now? Look, I mean, I think everybody's allocation is different, depending on their overall goals and objective and time horizon. But let's say, you know, you're you're a mixed investor, half in equities, half in fixed income. We'd actually recommend a little bit more fixed income, above and beyond your target. And the reason being is simply return skew. Um, you know, right now, with a 450 tenure, let's call it, shock interest rates up or down 100 basis points and look at what happens over the next year in terms of total return. Well, if if interest rates go up 100 basis points, you know, you're down roughly 2 and a half percent, but if they go down 100 basis points, you're up roughly 12%. And so the risk return skew there does is attractive. And you know, we walked through some of the stretch valuation in the equity space. If that were to reprice, uh, we do think bonds offer some attractive diversification, uh, characteristics for portfolio in that in that case. Sign in to access your portfolio
Yahoo
18-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
How to balance fixed income and equities in your portfolio
Northwestern Mutual Wealth Management's chief portfolio manager of equities, Matt Stuckey, outlines his allocation strategy for equities and fixed income (^TYX, ^TNX, ^FVX) To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination here. Bonds the drag on your portfolio until they're the thing that saves your portfolio for our chart of the day we have a bar chart showing how bonds can protect your portfolio in the event of a recession here how much bond exposure should you recommend investors have right now? Look, I mean, I think everybody's allocation is different depending on their overall goals and objective and time horizon, but let's say you know you're, you're a mixed investor, half in equities, half in fixed income. We actually recommend a little bit more fixed income above and beyond your target, and the reason being is simply return skew. Um, you know, right now with the 450 10 year, let's call it shock interest rates up or down 100 basis points and look at what happens over the next year in terms of total return. Well, if, if interest rates go up 100 basis points, you know, you're down roughly 2.5. But if they go down 100 basis points, you're up roughly 12%. And so the risk return skew there to us is attractive. And you know we walk through some of the stretch valuation in the equity space. If that were to reprice, we do think bonds offer some attractive diversification characteristics for a portfolio in that in that case.
Yahoo
03-04-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Blair County dealership reacts to tariffs and its impact on car prices
BLAIR COUNTY, Pa. (WTAJ) — A car dealership in Blair County weighed in on how a 25% tariff increase on foreign cars and parts might impact their customers during one of their busiest times. With the increase beginning this Thursday, April 3, the people at Stuckey Ford said they're trying their best to keep vehicle prices down. However, dealerships are not sure how this will impact their prices. In March, Stuckey Automotive had its record month of sales, selling a thousand cars. The dealership said spring tends to be a busier time for car sales. For now, they say nothing has changed. New 24/7 emergency vet clinic opening in State College 'Nothing we really know right now other than we do know that that the cars on the lot that we have here today, they're the same price today as they were yesterday,' Stuckey Automotive President Matt Stuckey said. According to Anderson Economic Group, a 25% tariff could increase prices anywhere from $4,000 for regular vehicles to $12,000 for EVs. Price increases will vary depending on the dealership and how their supply chain works. The tariffs are set to expand to applicable auto parts in the following weeks, through May says they'll do what they can to try to keep prices as low as possible. 'Our mission and our goal is to provide affordable vehicles and to keep affordable vehicles on the road for the folks in the communities that we serve,' Matt Stuckey said. Stuckey added they don't believe the uptick in sales is a direct correlation of the tariffs. However, automakers nationwide sold nearly 1.6 million vehicles in March, which is up 13% from February. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
