Jim Lydotes flips the timer on 1) packaging companies’ pricing power, 2) consolidation in utilities, 3) Voya’s Grassroots Research on college recruitment in the AI era.

Private assets have an important role in enhancing long-term Defined Contribution retirement outcomes.

While major prepayment models produce reasonable forecasts for broad segments of the mortgage market, they often have shortcomings. This is how Voya’s mortgage derivatives team exploited one structural misvaluation.

Jim Lydotes flips the timer on 1) small cap capex, 2) Voya’s Grassroots Research® on cyber spending, 3) an interesting setup for specialty chemicals.

An energy shock, sticky inflation, and fractured global policy have made the path forward less forgiving.

As sponsors confront volatile oil prices and geopolitical risk, here’s a look at what does (and doesn’t) work.

Markets are being tested on several fronts at once. But the important question is how these shocks travel—through inflation, monetary policy, funding conditions, or issuer fundamentals. That’s where resilience begins to diverge.

Structured lending to funds can provide similar returns at potentially lower risk than investing as an LP...

Jim Lydotes covers: 1) how health care is stabilizing, 2) why used cars could be an inflation indicator, and 3) why AI spending could crowd out hiring.

For a time, simply being exposed to AI drove returns. That phase is over.