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The View from Bob Doll Expect Improved Economic and Earnings Growth in the Coming Months

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Bob Doll Feature Article

Expect Improved Economic and Earnings Growth in the Coming Months

PIMCO - Active Management

The Benefits of Active Management in Fixed Income Investing

J.R. Rieger, S&P Dow Jones Indices 9 How to Approach Fixed Income Amid Looming Fed Hikes

MASTERCLASS Exclusive: Thornburg

Thornburg’s Approach to Fixed Income

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Expect Improved Economic and Earnings Growth in the Coming Months Bob Doll, Senior Portfolio Manager and Chief Equity Strategist, Nuveen Asset Management For the second year in a row, we saw a disappointing first quarter GDP report. What’s your take on the early-year slowdown?

Bob, Janet Yellen seemed to indicate that several financial assets were somewhat overvalued. Do you agree with that assessment?

There is no question, first-quarter GDP was sluggish compared to virtually anybody’s expectations. There were some one-offs- weather, once again a good excuse; the West Coast dock strike and assorted other issues. Having said that, you wonder is there something about the first quarter? Some studies suggest that is weaker— for the seasonal adjustment process needs some work. More importantly the economy has turned a little bit weaker compared to the surprising up-side strength of the second half of last year.

I think if you look at Janet Yellen’s comments carefully she just said fully valued, maybe she said expensive but expensive markets can stay expensive for long periods of time. I like to say Bull Markets don’t end at a price level, they don’t end of old age, they end when something negative comes along that causes someone, usually the Fed, to squash it all, and we’re far from that. So valuation at these levels probably means the pace of gains for equities is going to be slower, but it doesn’t mean they have to go down.

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One of the main themes that has been driving the markets is falling oil and a rising dollar. It looks like that trend might be starting to reverse—what do you think will happen next? My view of the main trend is—dollar up and oil down and we have had a corrective counter trend move of pretty significant proportions. I don’t know that we’re going back to the vengeance at which the dollar went up and oil went down, but I think oil will be sloppy from here and the dollar will rise irregularly as we go forward.

Greg Mino, the head of equity and real assets at Nuveen Investments, discusses the covered-call strategy and how it can provide diversification and regular retirement income in a Closed-End fund wrapper.

Asset Class Highlight: Preferred Securities

In the search for income, exploring options beyond traditional debt and equity may provide not only attractive yield opportunities, but also a more flexible, diversified portfolio. Douglas Baker, CFA, Senior Vice President and Portfolio Manager for the Lipper Award-winning Nuveen Preferred Securities Fund, discusses the state of the preferreds, investment opportunities, and portfolio positioning.

Chicago Debt Downgrade – Key Takeaways

The decision to overturn Illinois pension reforms means state and local governments face immediate, tough financial decisions. How Chicago addresses its unfunded liabilities will be key to the city’s fiscal trajectory. John Miller, Nuveen Asset Management Co-Head of Fixed Income, discusses the implications.

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PIMCO - Active Management The Benefits of Active Management in Fixed Income Investing PIMCO Managing Director James Moore discusses how, unlike index funds, actively managed bond funds seek to mitigate concentrated or poorly compensated risks while identifying pockets of value across the broad fixed income markets. Active management can offer a number of benefits to investors in fixed income. First and foremost is the ability to think about relative value within a segment, be it within the interest rate segment, the credit segment, or the mortgage segment to look and say: “Are there different attractive elements across the different segments or looking for relative value within a segment.” There are opportunities all the time in terms of where value is along the yield curve, even if you’re at a market duration or at times looking at the returns for duration relative to the risk that it has, you may choose to underweight, or if it looks particularly attractive, overweight. Within the mortgage sector, understanding the mechanics of what banks do to think about managing their mortgage portfolios creates opportunities for those

entities who can provide liquidity for example, and understanding the nature of where elements are in the mortgage market that are really undervalued or overvalued can over time add up in a number of basis points that can accumulate to be quite meaningful. Thirdly, within credit, credit selection becomes a very important way of adding value within the number of individual bonds outstanding of an individual credit, there can be very different pricing opportunities. There are a lot of ways an active fixed income manager can add value through managing risk. One of them is looking at relative value in that marketplace and making decisions like: Am I getting compensated enough for any particular risk? Am I getting compensated for duration? Or if I like duration are there better points along the yield curve? Credit selection is integrally important

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in actively managing fixed income because not all credits are created equally, and not all issues from the same issuer are created equally. So that element can be very important. Understanding the impact of other investors in the marketplace who may not be thinking about true mark to market returns, but maybe thinking about things like book yields, can indicate preference for certain things. For example, banks within the mortgage sector. So there are a lot of ways and nuances that an active manager can add value in fixed income.

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Expand Your Potential with Global Bonds

Learn how a global approach to investing can offer a wide array of opportunities for growth, income, and diversification in this “Your Money at Work” series video.

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Rob Arnott on a Smarter Way to Get Your Beta

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Approaching Fixed Income Amid Looming Fed Hikes

Watch these videos on the S&P Dow Jones Indices Channel What is SPIVA?

With the possibility of rising rates around the corner, the question is which corner? J.R. Rieger, Global Head of Fixed Income at S&P Dow Jones Indices, discusses how some investors are really reaching for yield, and have become a little complacent on the long end of the curve and on some of the riskier credits in the high yield market in particular. How will the decision of The Fed later this year have an impact on how investors position their bond portfolios? As interest rates go up we can expect to see credit spreads widening for the weaker credits. Why bother going out of the risk spectrum if you can get a similar yield and a higher quality fixed income? So credit spreads should widen and that should be a double whammy for investors who have taken that leap of faith. Has this reach for yield compressed credit spreads?

the credit spread differential has come down so much. You have to question whether you are getting compensated for that risk or not. Within fixed income broadly, what assets classes if you drill down or spaces within fixed income are most sensitive to liquidity would you say? We’ve been watching the senior loan market because that’s what drew the attention of the US Fed and the treasury. You know, that speculation about how deep the liquidity pool is for senior loans, as well as fixed rate high yield. They’ve also thrown in munis just to make our world more interesting, right. So when you look at the data, so far, the Trade Association for Senior Loans is reporting pretty good liquidity. Now, liquidity can change on a dime, it’s

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just the market emotions and that can change pretty quickly. But in the corporate bond market, we’ve been tracing the data backward at the bottom level; 88% of the binds in the Investment Grade index trade during each month, 88% of them. Concentration of the volume is probably much lower, right, because there’s just a few names that are driving that par value; market value transactional numbers are up. Munis, it steps down, Invest Grade Munis, about 66% of those bonds will trade during the month, much smaller in size as well, so liquidity does vary and it’s a very emotional reaction in the market that’ll drive liquidity, whether positive or negatively.

Aye Soe, Senior Director of Global Research & Design explains SPIVA, its underlying data, and its significance around the globe.

Case Study: A Strategic Look at Indexing

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Mapping the Landscape of Risk

Tim Edward and Craig Lazzara, of S&P Dow Jones Indices, discuss the recent history of dispersion, voltility, and correlation.

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Overall Morningstar Rating among 903 World Stock funds, based on risk-adjusted returns for Class I shares, using a weighted average of the fund’s three- and five-year ratings: five stars and five stars among 903 and 702 funds, respectively as of 3/31/15. To determine a fund’s Morningstar Rating™, funds with at least a three-year history are ranked in their categories by their Morningstar Risk-Adjusted Return scores. The top 10% receive 5 stars; the next 22.5%, 4 stars; the middle 35%, 3 stars; the next 22.5%, 2 stars; and the bottom 10% receive 1 star. The Risk-Adjusted Return accounts for variation in a fund’s performance (including the effects of all sales charges), placing more emphasis on downward variations and rewarding consistent performance. Other share classes may have different performance characteristics. © 2015 Morningstar, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The information contained herein: (1) is proprietary to Morningstar and/or its content providers; (2) may not be copied or distributed; and (3) is not warranted to be accurate, complete or timely. Neither Morningstar nor its content providers are responsible for any damages or losses arising from any use of this information. Past performance is no guarantee of future results. Investments in the Fund carry risks, including possible loss of principal. Special risks may be associated with investments outside the United States, especially in emerging markets, including currency fluctuations, illiquidity, volatility, and political and economic risks. Investments in small capitalization companies may increase the risk of greater price fluctuations. Investments in the Fund are not FDIC insured, nor are they deposits of or guaranteed by a bank or any other entity. Class I shares may not be available to all investors. Minimum investments for the I share class may be higher than those for other classes.

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MASTERCLASS Exclusive Thornburg’s Approach to Fixed Income Thornburg has been managing fixed income since 1984. In this Exclusive MASTERCLASS a panel of Thornburg fixed income portfolio managers discuss their approach across a range of strategies in addition to rising rates and other challenges facing investors. Investors are concerned about rising rates and how that’s going to impact their portfolios Jeff Klingelhofer: As far as what investors are thinking, it’s a difficult conundrum. The Fed has really spent the last number of years in response to a lot of the economic malaise that has been taking place throughout the system: periods of low inflation, low growth, and low job growth up until recently. This forced not only low rates but it also forced numerous quantitative easings. This helped to cure some of the economic problems and helped spur the economy, perhaps, out of a recessionary period. But it also spurred a lot of asset bubbles that now, perhaps, are going to be unwound slowly throughout the system.

Christopher Ryon: The Fed policies have created a lot of bubbles, and if you look in the fixed income market, just evaluating fixed income products against inflation, there is a term that’s used called real yields. Using that metrics, fixed income products are pretty expensive, for example; a 10 year municipal bond typically yields 200 basis points over inflation. Right now it’s yielding maybe 50 basis points over inflation, and a five year municipal bond is not even keeping up with inflation. So fixed income products are pretty much overvalued, and you really have to look for pockets of value in the fixed income market right now. Lon Erickson: It’s time to know what you own, just don’t take the top line, something that says it’s a short duration fund and assume that’s all the risk you have to worry about, is gone. Because a lot of the short duration funds in the taxable market have these buckets that are dedicated to high yield or you

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can invest in high yield products where you’re taking a lot of credit risk instead. That’s how they get their yield numbers up a little bit. So just be aware that you may be trading in interest rate risk and actually accepting a lot of credit risk that you really don’t want or that you already have somewhere else in your portfolio, you’re not as diversified as you might think. Nicholos Venditti: If you take a 35,000 foot view of the fixed income market, the muni market specifically, there’s basically two levers we can pull to try to generate returns. We can either go out along the yield curve longer searching for yield or we can go lower in credit quality. If you look at both of those metrics, credit spreads are incredibly tight. So it doesn’t make a lot of sense from a risk reward trade to go down in value.

Associate Portfolio Manager David Ashley explains why the municipal high yield asset class is narrow and undiversified, why managers that invest mostly within that space may expose investors to much higher risks, and what a more prudent alternative may look like.

Thornburg Global Opportunities Strategy

Portfolio Managers Brian McMahon and Vinson Walden discuss the Thornburg Global Opportunities strategy, a flexible, focuses, all-cap equity portfolio that leverages Thornburg’s renowned capacity as a global generalist. The extremely selective fund collects 30 to 40 thoroughly researched holdings from around the world.

Bond Laddering

Portfolio Manager Josh Gonze discusses Thornburg’s active approach to laddering bond portfolios, which mitigates interestrate risk via reinvestment of maturing-bond proceeds in the far end of each fund’s maturity range. We believe this approach helps us strike the best risk/reward balance, while diversifying exposures along the yield curve.

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Divergent Monetary Policies: Inflation or Deflation?

High-Yield Municipal Bonds: Are They Worth the Risk?

Positioning to Take Advantage of Fixed-Income Volatility

Owen Fitzpatrick, Head of U.S. Equity and Portfolio Manager for Deutsche Core Equity Fund, reviews Q1 fund performance and positioning, details key secular themes that are driving stock selection, and discusses how that may change as the year progresses. He predicts interest rate movement and “better numbers” in the second part of the year.

Should investors worry about the impact of diverging monetary policies? Joe Davis, Vanguard’s Chief Economist and Head of Vanguard Investment Strategy Group, and Roger Aliaga-Díaz, senior economist with the Vanguard Global Economic Team, look at the expected impact of changing interest rates as a result of actions by the Federal Reserve and other central banks. Davis says, while not highly probably, “its possible that both the ECB and BOJ don’t raise rates at all this entire decade.”

Bill Chepolis, co-head of U.S. Fixed Income at Deutsche Asset and Wealth Management, recaps fixed-income market moves for the quarter, “First quarter on the face of it looks like nothing happened but there was actually quite a bit of volatility, which is a theme we expect to persist throughout 2015.” Chepolis also says “EM and high yield bounced back from Q4 14overall Fixed income assets did pretty well.”

PIMCO - Global Cyclical Outlook: Q2 2015

Finding Value in Today’s Muni Market

Joe LaVorgna Economic Update: Jobs, Oil and Interest Rates

Richard Clarida, Global Strategic Advisor at PIMCO, shares the firm’s latest outlook on the global economy, and puts markets in perspective with their Q2 2015 Global Cyclical Outlook. Clarida “sees pickup in global growth in 2015 between 2.5 and 3 percent” and notes that “inflation will be modest, mostly due to the decline in oil prices.”

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Joe LaVorgna, Deutsche Bank chief economist, provides an outlook for the labor market: why low energy prices can serve as a tailwind, where central bank activity is headed globally, and when the Fed may start to raise rates. Joe cautions “against taking big duration bets given how low yields are”, but adds, “this is still a very good market for the stock investor.” Another bright spot, “Broadly speaking the labor market has improved—last year we had the best job market in about fifteen years.”

Carol Flynn, co-head of U.S. fixed income, reviews how municipal bonds fared in Q1, recaps the main performance drivers for the Deutsche Muni suite, discusses expectations for interest rates going forward, and provides an outlook for credit conditions. Flynn says “drivers of performance included municipal yields declined, and the muni curve with exposure to credit performed the best.”

Fidelity: Q1 2015 Fixed Income Perspectives

George Fisher, managing director of research, at Fidelity Investments provides perspectives on Fixed Income in Q1—“Monetary policy divergence was the dominant theme. As many central banks eased policy, while the Fed signaled normalization was approaching.”

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MASTERCLASS: Alternative Investments - May 2015

Time to Love Emerging Markets Again?

Landscape for Smart Beta and Active ETFs

Infrastructure Investing for the Road Ahead

Amid a 6 year Bull Market many investors are still turning to alternatives to de-risk their portfolios. Marty Kerns, President & CEO at Kerns Capital Management, Inc. notes; “when markets sell off everything becomes correlated, so we need non-correlated assets—and that’s the void that alternatives fill.”

Is it time to love emerging markets again? 45-year industry veteran Tom White, CIO of Thomas White International, returns to offer his thoughts on what he feels are the most promising emerging markets for this year and beyond. White states that “although investors recognize the long-term above average growth potential in these countries, they have been holding back, concerned that they will perform poorly when the Fed raises rates. We feel this concern is unwarranted.”

Deborah Fuhr, Managing Partner of ETFGI, explains the current ETF landscape, “At the end of Q1 2015, the global ETF industry is at a record level of 2.926 Trillion USD. They are listed on 63 exchanges in 51 different countries.” Fuhr continues, “when we break it down by region, the US accounts for over 71% of all the global assets, and equity products account for 77% of all assets.”

John Vojticek, CIO for liquid real assets at Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management, details key Q1 performance drivers, how the team is positioning amid oil price declines, regional positioning in light of a rising U.S. dollar, and an outlook for infrastructure—including any impact from the potential for rising interest rates. “Things that were more cyclical did well, thing more bond-like, like utilities did a little weaker, and energy treaded water.” Regionally, “more weight into Europe, but the majority of the portfolio is in the Americas.”

Invesco Presents: Four Ways to Incorporate Alternatives Into Portfolios

Benefits of ETFs in the Liquid Alternative Space

Capturing China’s Growth

Walter Davis and Tracy Fielder of Invesco outline how to use alternatives to diversify a portfolio. Davis says, “Alternative investments can help investors achieve specific goals: most return/reduce risk, generate more consistent, less volatile returns, cushion the portfolio during times of equity weakness, increase current yield in a low rate environment, protect against inflation and rising rates, and may profit from opportunities outside of equities and fixed income.”

Shawn McNinch, Global Head of ETF Services at Brown Brothers Harriman and Curtis Tai, ETF Strategist at CSOP Asset Management discuss how foreign investors can gain exposure to China’s onshore growth as their capital markets continue to liberalize. “China is a very exciting place to be. It is the second largest market by GDP, the second largest equities market in the world—all this in spite of being a restricted market.”

Real Estate and Global Infrastructure: Nuveen Real Asset Income Fund Adam Patti, CEO and co-founder of IndexIQ, reviews the portfolio construction benefits of using ETFs to get exposure to alternatives and the advantages of ETFs in the Liquid Alternative Space. “One of the benefits of ETFs is tax efficiency— in contrast to a LP structure you could be losing 1-3% of your annual returns just on the short term capital gains.” He also cites transparency, “you want to know what you own, particularly in the alternative space.”

By investing in income-producing global infrastructure and real estate across the capital structure, the Nuveen Real Asset Income Fund offers the potential for steady income and appreciation, while helping to diversify risk. Jay Rosenberg, Head of Investments for Real Assets at Nuveen Asset Management, discusses the potential for enhanced income, growth, and risk management.

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2015 MASTERCLASS Participants

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MASTERCLASS Alternative Investments

MASTERCLASS Equities

Ricardo L. Cortez, Co-CEO, Broadmark Asset Management

Randy Cain, Portfolio Manager, Herndon Capital Management

“I think this is the largest six year Bull Market with people still skeptical and moving into alternatives because they’re de-risking portfolios, even though the market is up.”

“Focusing on a more cyclical growth orientation, focusing on a broader perspective geographically, is likely to prove to be a bit more profitable venture for investors.”

MASTERCLASS Exchange Traded Funds

MASTERCLASS Fixed Income

Cathy Wood, CEO/CIO Ark Invest

Rick Harper, Head of Fixed Income & Currency, WisdomTree

“The share shift will continue because of all of the advantages. The next phase is active. We are certainly focused on active, which is focusing on disruptive innovation out there.”

“Since 2003, there’s pretty much been a script, the Fed in the 2003, 2006 tightening, went 25 basis points on a crack. It was like paint by numbers.”

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Alka Banerjee, Managing Director, Strategy and Global Equity Indices, S&P Dow Jones Indices.

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“One bright spot in emerging markets seems to be India, its fundamentals look very strong, markets have been up and currency hasn’t depreciated in the last year.”

“1,000 banks approximately failed in the last decade. It’s an enormous number. Zero BDCs have failed. Zero BDCs, to my knowledge, have ever had a payment default on any type of loan, bond or other meaningful obligation.”

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OCTOBER Julia Kochetygova, Senior Director, S&P Dow Jones Indices

Anupam Damani, Portfolio Manager, TIAA-CREF

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“The emerging markets asset class has grown, evolved and matured over time. You no longer see the same sort of contagion happening throughout the asset class because of one country or one event beyond the very immediate term.”

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DECEMBER Jeff Jorgensen, Director of Research, Center Coast Capital Advisors

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“Everyone wants to get behind this North American unconventional oil and gas revolution, but no one wants commodity exposure. MLPs are a great way to get behind the development of shale oil and gas resources in the lower 48, and it’s a great way to play that without taking on too much risk.”

“We look at it in terms of fundamentals. If you look at the current commodity price vs. its cost of production — if you see narrow margins, or you see instances of current futures prices being below your cost of production, it’s a good indication of value.”

12/2/2015 12/3/2015 12/3/2015 12/8/2015 12/9/2015 12/16/2015

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