Name: The Evolution of the Thematic Funds Landscape – North American View
Start: 2023-05-24T16:00:00Z
End: 2023-05-24T16:00:40.000Z
Location: BrightTALK
Rating: 4.5

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2025 Outlook & Beyond

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Election Reaction: Investment Views

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Asset Allocation Ahead of Election

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Portfolio Pairings: Actionable Ideas

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Active/Passive Key Exposures

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X-Factor: Fastest-Growing Advisors

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Mid-Year Outlook

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Navigating Market Volatility During Election

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Head-to-Head: Hare and Tortoise Portfolios

Join Preston Caldwell, Chief U.S. Economist, for a deep dive into our U.S. economic outlook for 2024 and beyond. 

Despite initial concerns, the U.S. economy has defied expectations by experiencing accelerated GDP growth in 2023 compared to the previous year, despite significant rate hikes. In our upcoming webinar, we will discuss our forecasts for U.S. GDP, inflation, and interest rates over the next five years. We anticipate a slowdown in GDP growth starting in 2024, but expect a rebound in 2025 and beyond due to aggressive rate cuts from the Federal Reserve and a decline in inflation. Register now for all the details plus client-friendly charts to enhance your conversations!

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In today's rapidly evolving investment landscape, the significance of individuals’ investment in cryptoassets is crucial. This specially tailored webinar is designed to equip wealthtech platforms and wealth management firms with an understanding of why it's vital for their advisors to have insight into their client’s cryptoasset investments. Additionally, we will highlight how the ByAllAccounts wealth data ecosystem is bridging the visibility gap so advisors can view their clients’ full financial picture including cryptoassets.

We will discuss the complexities of cryptoassets, emphasizing the need for advisors to be informed about their clients' investments. This knowledge is key in offering comprehensive advice, including tax planning, estate planning, and risk assessment. We will deep dive into recent research and newly implemented regulations including new provisions in the Tax Code that require the reporting of cryptocurrency transactions.

You will gain valuable insights from Don McHenry, ByAllAccounts' Director of Product Management, Morningstar Wealth, and Tyrone Ross, CEO of Turnqey Labs. You will leave this discussion with a clear understanding of: 
• The current landscape of cryptoasset investment in the United States.
• The strategic significance of comprehensive visibility into clients’ cryptoassets for portfolio management, risk management, estate planning, and tax planning.
• How ByAllAccounts' can bridge the cryptoasset visibility gap through integrations with leading crypto exchanges such as Coinbase and Gemini, providing a unified and current view of client cryptoasset holdings.

Join us to eliminate the visibility gap in your advisors' practices, enabling them to deliver premium guidance and cultivate trust with clients that have ventured into the world of cryptoasset investments.

Bridging the Gap: Gain Visibility into Client Cryptoassets for Your Advisors

Join us for our upcoming webinar where we will unpack the latest developments in Direct Indexing, offering insights into innovative strategies for personalized, tax-efficient investing.

Direct Indexing Update: Tax Planning Resolutions You Can Keep

As a wealthtech service provider or broker-dealer, you already know how complex and challenging it can be to cater to the growing needs of registered independent advisors (RIAs) and hybrid advisors who manage investments for their clients across multiple custodians. 

At ByAllAccounts, we've been supporting multi-custodied advisors for over 23 years, and we understand their unique requirements and challenges. We firmly believe that enabling your advisors to realize their utmost potential involves tapping into a virtually unrestricted network of advisor book of business data providers. This empowers your advisors to seamlessly view and report on all their accounts within a unified platform, ensuring your platform’s scalability, reliability, accuracy, and security remain uncompromised. 
To help you understand the importance of advisor book of business account aggregation, join our webinar, which delves deeper into the challenges faced by serving multi-custodied advisors and explores what to look for in a book of business aggregation solution.

In our webinar, you will learn:
• The data challenges faced when supporting multi-custodied advisors, such as data access and accuracy plus platform scalability.
• The key features to look for in a book of business aggregation solution, including a growing network of advisor data sources that delivers high-quality data for complex use cases (e.g., performance reporting), seamless advisor onboarding, and integrated insights. 
• The advantages of partnering with an industry expert that can provide seamless integration and customized data outputs without the need of custom development.

This webinar is key for wealthtech service providers, broker-dealers, and anyone interested in unlocking the potential of serving multi-custodied advisors.

Wealthtech Toolbox: How to Facilitate Custodial Independence for Your Advisors

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Dividend Portfolios in 2024: New Research

In just 13 minutes, this short but impactful session will take you on a journey through the key features that make Morningstar Office a true game-changer for your practice. From its comprehensive portfolio management tools to its advanced analytics and reporting capabilities, you'll gain valuable insights on how to harness the full potential of Morningstar Office. 

Learn how this cutting-edge tool is designed to revolutionize the way financial advisors work, helping you streamline your workflows, boost efficiency, and deliver exceptional financial advice.

Empowering Great Advice with Morningstar Office

As 2023 draws to a close, investor attention has now turned to the year ahead. For advisors, 2024 will offer a new set of challenges and changes to guide clients through. In our upcoming webinar, our speakers will highlight the most important issues facing investors, share insights from our current research, and provide guidance on making better investment decisions as we enter the new year.

2024 Outlook: AI, Election, Taking Advantage, & Our Base Case

As we embark on an exciting new year, we remain vigilant and aware. The landscape for 2024 is filled with prominent uncertainties, but also opportunities. 

Join for a comprehensive webinar designed exclusively for financial advisors, which will explore the latest insights, strategies, and tools needed to navigate the dynamic realm of personalized investing.

In this session from Morningstar Wealth, Michael Laughlin, Head of Portfolio Specialists, and Andy Kunzweiler, Portfolio Manager, Direct Indexing, will share insights on market positioning and planning for 2024, the role of a direct indexing strategy in a volatile financial market, and answer your questions about implementing direct indexing for your investors.

• The Morningstar Wealth 2024 outlook, including risks and opportunities for investors.
• How to use direct indexing to capture opportunities for investors in periods of volatility.
• Understand market projections and investment opportunities arising from the continued growth of direct indexing.
• Best practices and practical insights to implement direct indexing in your practice for 2024.

Direct Indexing Dynamics: A Deep Dive on 2024

Thematic funds became increasingly popular with the onset of the coronavirus, with many posting eye-catching returns over the period. These investment vehicles attempt to harness various secular growth themes, from energy transition to connectivity to artificial intelligence to cannabis to disruptive healthcare technologies.

Join Morningstar's Kenneth Lamont and Tom Nations to discuss the evolving landscape of Thematic Funds as well as a live demo of the Thematic Analyzer - Funds Notebook in Morningstar Direct.

The Evolution of the Thematic Funds Landscape – North American View

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