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The company has a special focus on so-called defined-outcome funds, or buffer funds, which use options contracts to offer investors protection from market downturns while retaining access to some of the gains.

A potential job-market downturn, meanwhile, would reduce hiring by client companies.

In May, her family opened up a second storefront nearby in Santee Alley, without anticipating the raids and resulting downturn.

“A downturn provides potential opportunities not just in these stocks, but in quality AI adopters in healthcare, financials, and energy.”

“While job losses are not high compared to past economic downturns, job vacancies and job transitions have been low, so it has been relatively difficult for unemployed people to transition back to work,” it added.