In unsteady times, steady talk with your clients can make all the difference in enabling you to strengthen bonds and solidify trust with them. You don’t have to have all the answers—but an effective communications approach can help them feel anchored and ensure that your practice keeps thriving. Our complimentary guide outlines five clear-cut strategies for helping you talk through the uncertainty and position yourself as your clients’ solid ground.

While energy investment retrenches in the wake of COVID-19’s historic impact on oil and gas markets, consumers will benefit as economies reopen. Selective and patient investors should too.

Credit markets are moving fast. But periods of maximum uncertainty often make the most attractive entry points.

What lessons can we learn from past financial crises that will help us navigate the coronavirus pandemic?

As investors struggle to find attractive yield-generating opportunities in a lower-for-longer interest rate environment, many are diversifying into corporate real estate. But not all real estate is created equal. Fundamental Income focuses on the Net Lease real estate sector, which encompasses corporate properties leased to single tenants under long-term, “triple-net” leases. Fundamental Income’s sector-defining approach can help financial advisors access total return strategies that target sustainable income and predictable growth. The key is long-term, contractual cash flows.

The coronavirus has dealt a severe and unexpected shock to people - and markets - worldwide. Our senior investment leaders examine where we go from here, outlining how they see a recovery taking shape once the crisis passes.

The Loomis Sayles municipal credit research team offers their current outlooks on key sectors.

Portfolios comprised of top-notch equities and bonds coming into the economic and market crises should do even better coming out of it.

Numerous surveys show that women often defer to their male partner regarding financial decisions. By doing so, they may be tragically unprepared to deal with their financial affairs in the event of divorce or death of a spouse. But there’s a solution: get women involved in financial planning by sharing your knowledge. Our free checklist details key steps toward helping female clients understand and gain control of their finances.

While times like these are challenging for investors, we believe they can also help sharpen conviction in underlying investments. We have not made any wholesale changes. With a longer-term approach to investing, we believe the fear of others will continue to present us with attractive opportunities.