Brokerage firm's inaugural list of exchange-traded funds targets retail investors; 48 funds in all, 11 from Schwab.
Total Return Fund said to hold no government paper as of the end of February
Researchers find that issuers shell out $30B in unnecessary costs; pooling suggested
Uncle Sam's most recent offering of medium-term notes draws surprising interest; 4% yield seen as possible
Land of Lincoln prepping new debt issue; yields still lower than government paper from Portugal, though
With megabanks besieged by regulators and facing a public backlash over the 2008 credit crisis, portfolio managers increasingly are looking at smaller banks as a value play in the financial services sector
Bond investors should not expect returns for the next 11 years to be as good as those of the previous 11, and severe drawdowns are possible when inflation is rising, according to the annual Credit Suisse Global Investment Returns Yearbook 2010
Investors flocking to Treasury inflation-protected securities may be in for a rude awakening when interest rates start to rise
Guggenheim Partners LLC is in talks about combining its former Claymore Group Inc. exchange-traded-fund business with its Rydex SGI business, according to people familiar with the situation
Insurance brokers don't have to disclose incentive arrangements with insurers that were entered into before New York state's disclosure regulation took effect Jan. 1, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled
Advisers have mixed feelings about volatility dampener; 'really restrictive'
Western & Southern Financial Group Inc.'s decision to base its variable annuity investment options on exchange-traded funds is a positive for the insurer, allowing it to better manage market risk tied to the products, according to Moody's Investors Service
SEC claims that Provident Capital made false statements about its ability to cover its bond obligations
Real estate investment trusts finished 2010 with a gain of nearly 28%, matching the stellar returns of 2009 and nearly double the performance of the S&P 500 last year.
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
