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ALTERNATIVES JAN 15, 2012
Options traders hit up TD for $8.2M in losses

By Dan Jamieson
RETIREMENT PLANNING JAN 15, 2012
Schwab plans to launch bundled 401(k)

By Dan Jamieson
Gross back to buying American, ups U.S. debt bet percent
FIXED INCOME JAN 13, 2012
Gross back to buying American, ups U.S. debt bet percent

Total Return Fund boss reverses course, boosts holdings of government paper to 30%

By John Goff
Gross backs away from 'new normal' after missing bond rally
FIXED INCOME JAN 12, 2012
Gross backs away from 'new normal' after missing bond rally

Bill Gross is backing away from Pacific Investment Management Co.'s outlook for a “new normal” after lagging behind the majority of his peers during the biggest bond-market rally in nine years.

By Doug Cubberley
Hedge fund insider spills the beans: You're better off with Treasuries
ALTERNATIVES JAN 12, 2012
Hedge fund insider spills the beans: You're better off with Treasuries

His research shows returns have dipped substantially since the 1990s; compensation eating into payouts

By Evan Cooper
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 12, 2012
DWS shareholders in a holding pattern

There's no need for shareholders of DWS Investments' mutual funds to rush to the exits.

By Jason Kephart
Bill Gross: Euroland's 'dysfunctional' family feud
EMERGING MARKETS JAN 12, 2012
Bill Gross: Euroland's 'dysfunctional' family feud

A 12-year-old coffee mug has a permanent place on the right corner of my office desk. Given to me by an Allianz executive to commemorate PIMCO's marriage in 1999, it reads: “You can always tell a German but you can't tell him much.”

By Bill Gross
Finra: Claims about Wells REIT lacked foundation
ALTERNATIVES JAN 12, 2012
Finra: Claims about Wells REIT lacked foundation

Regulator fines Wells Real Estate unit $300K for misleading marketing; says distributor claimed Wells Timberland was a REIT when it wasn't

By Bruce Kelly
'Hedge fund surrogate' generating returns of 7%-9%
ALTERNATIVES JAN 11, 2012
'Hedge fund surrogate' generating returns of 7%-9%

The Innovator Matrix Income Fund utilizes eight categories of pass-throughs to generate a return of 7%-9%.

By Jeff Benjamin
EQUITIES JAN 11, 2012
Buying bonds for safety is a losing strategy: Ave Maria manager

Buying bonds for safety, when so many stocks are yielding such attractive dividends, is a losing strategy: Ave Maria manager.

By Jeff Benjamin
John Hussman: Markets filled with too much risk, too little return
EQUITIES JAN 10, 2012
John Hussman: Markets filled with too much risk, too little return

Last week, the S&P 500 pulled back by less than 2% - certainly not sufficient to clear the overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising-yields syndrome that we observe in the market, but enough to bring our estimate of S&P 500 10-year total returns from an expected 3.06% to an expected 3.25%.

By Mark Bruno
ALTERNATIVES JAN 09, 2012
Making the case for alternatives

If ever there was a time to embrace investments in alternatives, this is it.

By Jeff Benjamin
ALTERNATIVES JAN 08, 2012
American Realty tries again to take control of REIT

By Bruce Kelly
ALTERNATIVES JAN 06, 2012
Real estate: Surprising king of noncorrelated assets

By MFXFeeder
ETFS JAN 05, 2012
Scottrade kicks its FocusShares ETFs into high gear

Scottrade is celebrating the first birthday of its FocusShares exchange-traded funds with a big marketing push.

By Jason Kephart
MUTUAL FUNDS JAN 05, 2012
Artisan trio tabbed as Morningstar's U.S. stock fund manager of year

A team that manages three mutual funds for Milwaukee-based Artisan Partners LP was named 2011 domestic stock manager of the year by Morningstar Inc.

By Mark Bruno
EQUITIES JAN 05, 2012
Tom Forester: Finding value in playing defense

The uncertainty in Europe has pushed the Forester Value Fund Ticker:(FVALX) into a defensive mode, but that's far from sitting on the sidelines, according to Tom Forester.

By Jeff Benjamin
Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II, American Realty Capital Trust are raising dividends
ALTERNATIVES JAN 05, 2012
Grubb & Ellis Healthcare REIT II, American Realty Capital Trust are raising dividends

By Bruce Kelly
FIXED INCOME JAN 04, 2012
With rates stalled and uncertainty a given, investors cling to safety

While they wait for interest rates to rise and a chance to reinvest for greater yield, advisers remain parked in short-duration, high-quality fixed-income instruments.

By Dan Jamieson
ALTERNATIVES JAN 03, 2012
Volatility, low interest rates likely to boost alternatives despite lag

Despite the generally dismal performance of alternative investment funds, investors continued to pour money into them in 2011

By Andrew Osterland