Asset Allocation

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Highland’s perspective on the market along with our house views on asset allocation.

  • Asset Allocation | April 2024

    In a long-ago time, when documents were actually printed, a popular phrase – “before the ink was even dry” – was used to describe how quickly things can change.

  • Asset Allocation | March 2024

    U.S. large-cap stocks (S&P 500) continued to melt up in February and turned out a 5.3% total return during the month, as earnings season provided an upside catalyst with mega-cap technology stocks tied to the artificial intelligence (AI) theme leading the way.

  • Asset Allocation | February 2024

    For those of us tasked with tracking, analyzing, and forecasting the economic data, a general rule is that you seldom actually know what you at first think you know.

  • Asset Allocation | January 2024

    Our 2024 outlook is a natural follow-up to our 2023 outlook, which, as some readers will recall, was “Lots of Stuff May or May not Happen in 2023.” At the risk of appearing immodest, our 2023 outlook wasn’t just correct, it was spot-on, dead-bang, on-the-money correct, as lots of stuff did indeed happen in 2023…

  • Asset Allocation | December 2023

    As we close in on year-end, there are concerns that the U.S. economy will slip into recession in the new year, and even though inflation remains well above the Federal Open Market Committee’s (FOMC) 2.0% target rate, the committee finds itself trying to push back against market expectations of aggressive Fed funds rate cuts.