IRI report is pre-emptive strike against possible tax change
There is renewed life and strong momentum in the IPO market, but investors should not ignore some fundamental realities and patterns that newly public stocks tend to follow, according to Josef Schuster, manager of the Direxion Long/Short Global IPO Fund Ticker:(DXIIX).
When will Mark Zuckerberg be ringing the bell as investors clamor for his company's stock? <i>InvestmentNews'</i> Evan Cooper has an idea.
<i>The following is the weekly commentary of Jeffrey Kleintop, chief market strategist at LPL Financial, for the week of February 28, 2011. For more, <a href=http://lplfinancial.lpl.com/Documents/ResearchPublications/Weekly_Market_Commentary.pdf> click here.</a></i>
Higher interest rates are likely to result in insurers' sweetening their fixed-indexed-annuity offerings this year as they try to catch a wave of renewed investor interest
Scott Page, who has managed the top-performing bank loan fund over the past five years, said that the debt is still attractive, even after a two-year rally
Corporate-owned life insurance is on the chopping block as President Barack Obama releases his 2012 budget
Economic pressures are still negative, and sentiment is once again bullish enough to define an "overvalued, overbought, overbullish" condition.
Lawsuit claims insurer profited mightily off retained-asset accounts; lump-sum payment or not?
The three Transparent Value offerings based upon the Dow Jones RBP directional indexes include a U.S. large-cap aggressive index fund, a U.S. large-cap defensive index fund, and a U.S. large-cap market index fund
Guggenheim Partners LLC, an investment firm founded by the famous family for which it is named, announced today it is acquiring Security Benefit Corp. — and with it Rydex SGI.
Asset management boss warns that a 1994-style rout could happen -- if Fed changes monetary policy
There has been no better place in the U.S. government bond market since 2008 than in debt that protects against faster inflation
Growth on protected value cut back; company cites low interest rates
Genworth Financial Inc.is exiting the variable annuities market.
Bring on the fiduciary standard. In a recent InvestmentNews survey of almost 600 advisers, registered reps, financial planners, insurance agents and others, 69.2% said that they agree with the SEC's staff recommendation that any financial professional giving personalized investment advice be deemed a fiduciary
Russ Koesterich says emerging markets will reemerge as good bets in the second half of the year; pass on India, however
Three independent broker-dealers are suing their respective insurance carriers for failing to cover investors' legal claims, with one charging that its insurer has exposed it to “financial ruin”
In the wake of some highly publicized private-placement offerings that went sour, the regulator's head of enforcement says the SRO aims to crack down on Reg D deals and non-traded REITs.
Bill Gross of Pimco doesn't mince words when it comes to the Federal Reserve's stranglehold on interest rates. According to the bond king's latest report, the Fed's efforts to hold yields at historic lows is 'an abdication of responsibility.'
