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Greggory Warren, CFA
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Fed Tightens, but Low Inflation and Lackluster Business Investment Support Our Cautious View

In a widely anticipated move, the Federal Reserve raised its target for the federal funds rate by 25 basis points to 0.50%-0.75%. As we noted ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting, however, inflation is still below the committee’s 2% goal and business fixed investment remains below desired levels. We believe these data points support our view that low real interest rates are needed to ensure full utilization of labor and capital for some time. We incorporate a federal funds rate of ...
Underlying
Legg Mason Inc.

Legg Mason is a holding company. Through its subsidiaries, the company is an asset management company that provides investment management and related products and services. The company's investment advisory services include discretionary and non-discretionary management of separate investment accounts for institutional and individual investors. The company's investment products include proprietary mutual funds ranging from money market and other liquidity products to fixed income, equity and alternative funds managed in various investment styles. The company also provides other domestic and offshore funds to both retail and institutional investors, privately placed real estate funds, hedge funds, and funds-of-hedge funds.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

Analysts
Greggory Warren, CFA

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