Given the complexity of U.S. tax regulation, wealth advisers continue to grapple with how to build tax-efficient portfolios while balancing clients’ other objectives. We propose a rules-based way of doing so and analyze its benefits and trade-offs.

This document presents a case study describing the specific workflow used to set up the credit value strategy discussed in the paper Navigating Central Bank Intervention in Corporate Bond Markets (Sparks and Sharp 2017). It futher analyzes the impact of the European Central Bank's corporate bond program from the perspective of a hypothetical asset manager pursuing a credit value strategy in euro-denominated corporate debt.