Michael Hasenstab can crunch numbers with the best of them. And the lead manager of the Templeton Global Bond Fund has a doctorate in economics to prove it.
This quiz is based on several recent columns and articles from InvestmentNews that explore the use and performance of alternative investments, as well as developments in the retirement and 401(k) landscape.
Byron Wien, along with other notables like Laszlo Birinyi, say the market is way oversold and investors should pounce. Here are some of the stocks they like.
Prepping for the coming roller coaster ride by looking abroad
Corporate payouts still low by historical measures, says Foss; plenty of cash on balance sheets
Attracting too much money can lead to poor decisions -- and poorer investors
CNL Lifestyles Properties expects to post a new valuation in August
Automaker also shifting balance of pension plan to Prudential
Tells fund industry executives she still sees problems with current backstops; leaning towards floating NAV
Kavanagh doesn't hold out much hope that problems on the continent can be solved; breakup of the euro 'doesn't bode well'
A bit of advice to SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro, who has made it abundantly clear that she intends to make further changes to regulations governing money market funds: Quit while you are ahead.
Uncertainty, volatility remain top exports of eurozone these days; Germany seen as main beneficiary of election
A top real estate investor has suspended payments on a private placement hawked by B-Ds
