Secular trends clearly dictate the prudence of including non-U.S.-centric investments, both stocks and bonds, in a well-diversified portfolio.
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"The tightening of credit stems from secular trends, not cyclical ones, " says Molner.
Steinmetz outlines the prospects for a variety of asset classes, but its secular trends that one must look into, he says.
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All of them, says Reback, enasble the company to participate in numerous secular trends, including cloud computing, virtualization, and big data.
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"Secular trends in technology take place over many years, " he says.
Last year, then-Pope Benedict XVI chose Cardinal Dolan to deliver an address to the College of Cardinals on the church's strategy for stemming the rise of secular trends.
Pope Benedict's efforts to oppose the tide of many secular trends a force he once famously branded as a "dictatorship of relativism" were partly undercut by his struggle to communicate in a rapidly changing media landscape, turbo-charged by the Internet.
The idea that an Asian growth story, as per capita energy demand spikes, especially in China and India, has been used to support the argument that secular trends and market forces were in place to keep uranium prices rising.
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Whoever he is, the next pope will face a church in crisis: Benedict spent his eight-year pontificate trying to revive Catholicism amid the secular trends that have made it almost irrelevant in places like Europe, once a stronghold of Christianity.
Amid a collapse of the church's influence and following in Europe, the German pontiff had called on Catholics to hunker down and cultivate a "creative minority" whose embrace of doctrine was sound enough to resist the pull of secular trends across the continent.
Yum Brands has been trying to expand to faster growing emerging markets, particularly in China, to capture on secular growth trends.
Rowe Price at 20x or Eaton Vance at 18x given the track record of Howard Marks and team, the counter-cyclicality of the business, and secular growth trends in alternative assets.
The secular dividend theme remains intact given the current demographic trends and the increasing need for meaningful yield.
Shope strersses that he remains cautious about PC and server demand trends, but contends that many of his long held secular concerns are now the Street consensus.
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