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It’s Back To Risk-On For Active Managers

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Michelle deBoer-Jones
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It's starting to look like the fourth-quarter bear market may have been just a mere blip on the market radar. Active portfolio managers have been returning to risk-on positions over the last couple weeks. They're back to buying perennial favorites like the Communication Services sector, which now contains the likes of Facebook and other momentum names, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

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Momentum stocks appear to have mostly picked up right where they left up before the widespread asset-price plunge, although Thursday's pullback suggests the ride up may not be as...

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Michelle deBoer-Jones is editor-in-chief of Hedge Fund Alpha. She also writes comparative analyses of stocks for TipRanks and runs Providence Writing Services. Previously, she was a television news producer for eight years, producing the morning news programs for NBC affiliates in Evansville, Indiana and Huntsville, Alabama and spending a short time at the CBS affiliate in Huntsville.