Trading Trends, Missing Themes: Rethinking What's Really Long-Term
Join Rich Bernstein, Global Head of Macro & Customized Investing, and Michael Contopoulos, Head of Multi-Asset Macro Investing, for a conversation about how investors are confusing the short-term for the long-term, and vice versa.
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RBA offers global "go-anywhere," tactical ETF-only solutions for a range of investment objectives and risk tolerances that are all rooted in our top-down, macroeconomic research.
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RBA's Unique Investing Approach
RBA’s disciplined top-down investment approach seeks to identify investment opportunities that are often unrecognized or ignored as investors tend to focus too much on yesterday’s winners.
Top–Down Approach
We conduct top-down, macroeconomic research utilizing an extensive array of indicators to assess corporate profits, liquidity, and investor sentiment/valuation. We believe the markets are driven by profit cycles, not economic cycles.
Pactive® Investing
Pactive® investing is the active management of passive investments to drive alpha from size, style, region, sector, and other factors. RBA “X-rays” ETFs, looking at the underlying holdings of each ETF, resulting in a deeper assessment of macro exposures.
Global, Go-Anywhere Portfolios
Our portfolios are global, "go-anywhere" - we can go anywhere, but don't have to be everywhere. Our strategies emphasize and de-emphasize global market segments at different times, and will avoid assets that are unfavorable.
How to Invest with RBA
Financial Advisors
RBA offers a range of actively managed, tactically driven products available at most wirehouses, TAMPS and RIA platforms.
Institutions
RBA has a suite of strategies providing solutions for complex investment challenges for Institutional Investors.