Venerated Voices™ Q3 2018 Rankings

by Jill Mislinski, 10/15/18

Advisor Perspectives, a leading publisher serving financial advisors and the financial advisory community, has announced its Venerated Voices™ awards for commentaries published in Q3 2018. Rankings were issued in four categories: The Top 25 Venerated Voices™ by Firm and Author, the Top 10 Venerated Voices™ by Commentary, and a new category, The Top 25 Venerated Voices™ by Firm and Author (minimum three posts), where we include only those firms who contributed at least three commentaries in Q3.

Leading the Top 25 Venerated Voices™ by Firm category were Hussman Funds of Maryland, followed by Grantham, Mayo, and Von Otterloo & Co. (GMO) of Boston in second. In third place is Mauldin Economics of Texas.

Among individual commentators, the most-widely read were Rob Arnott, Shane Shepherd, and Bradford Cornell, all of Research Affiliates: Steve Blumenthal of CMG Capital Management Group was in second place, followed by Ben Inker of GMO in third place.

Leading the Top 25 Venerated Voices™ by Firm with at least three posts category were Mauldin Economics of Texas, followed by Richard Bernstein Advisors of New York City in second. In third place was Blackstone, also of New York City.

The most-widely read commentary of Q3 was Revolutionary Future Ahead by John Mauldin of Mauldin Economics. Published August 24, Mauldin paints an optimistic picture of our economic future, but warns that there will be some pain before the prosperity. He believes we will go through a global “Great Reset, a period of enormous and unpredictable volatility in all asset classes” caused by a massive global “debt wipeout” agreement. After that, Mauldin says that we will experience an unprecedented age of improvements technologically that will benefit world economies.

Liz Ann Sonders of Charles Schwab took second place with 2018 Mid-year U.S. Equity Outlook: Headwinds and Tailwinds Facing Off. The piece was published July 3 and weighed the risks of a downturn. She discussed major factors including employment, high expected earnings in 2019, inflation and the yield curve, trade and tariffs, and politics. She concluded with a chart showing economic inflection points and the market and encourages advisers to “focus on discipline, including diversification and rebalancing”.