Plan sponsors that focus on health and wealth are often more likely to implement other benefits that they would not have been considered before, including life insurance, supplemental health benefits, and executive and retiree medical and retirement benefits, Caldwell added.
Many emerging-market ETFs lean heavily into growth benchmarks and remain concentrated in large economies like China. Cullen’s CEMFX takes a different approach—actively screening for undervalued dividend payers across diverse EM countries. Portfolio Manager Rahul Sharma explains how this value-driven strategy aims to deliver higher yields, better geographic diversification, and stronger fundamentals than typical passive EM exposure, potentially offering advisors a complementary tool for today’s global environment.
Two thirds S&P 500 companies reporting they missed Wall Street estimates for earnings per share and sales have seen an average 1 day decline of 7.4%.