Lowell Shares Defensive Investing Strategies

Jim Lowell, chief investment officer at Adviser Investments, joined CNBC’s “Street Signs” to discuss the progress of trade talks between the U.S. and China, multinational companies’ future prospects and prudent defensive strategies for investors. Jim noted that markets like this favor individual company management and professional managers over broadly based baskets of index and exchange-traded fund products that continue to face a litany of risks. He further emphasized that investors should remain defensive, with well-diversified portfolio holdings that balance stocks, bonds and cash relative to near-term income needs and long-term goals.