Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC is bullish on large-cap stocks — and is giving a nod to Walden Asset Management, Invesco Ltd. and Brown Brothers Harriman & Co. as three firms that could produce top-performing large-cap mutual funds in 2011.
Withdrawals at fever pitch, highest in two years
Smaller U.S. companies are rallying the most since 2003 relative to the Standard & Poor's 500 Index, a sign to BlackRock Inc. and JPMorgan Funds that the economy will strengthen and spur a third year of gains for investors.
A recovering economy is laying the foundation for a rally in large-cap stocks, according to Philip Tasho, chief executive and chief investment offer at Tamro Capital Partners LLC, a $1.3 billion asset management firm.
Financial advisers are upbeat about prospects for stocks in 2011, with many predicting that last year's broad market surge will continue into this year.
Yes, the Dow will top 14,440 next year -- if the past is any guide. In fact, historical trading patterns indicate that a record run-up in the market is almost inevitable. Your move.
As investors make their resolutions for 2011, many should resolve to take on more risk.
Prices dropping amid year-end blitz of offerings; buying individual bonds — not bond funds — the wisest course, say money managers
Yields hit four-month high in face of rising unemployment, dour forecasts; shrinking supply seen in 2011
Financial advisers are upbeat about prospects for stocks in 2011, with many predicting that last year's broad market surge will continue into this year. That's what they're telling their clients, too.
The acronym TMT took a beating nearly than a decade ago, when a number of telecom services (T), media (M), and the information technology stocks (T) declined sharply. Since then many diversified mutual fund managers have focused on these now recovered industries and a small number of funds have narrowed their sights to just the TMT space with success.
The U.S. consumer will likely be a force to be reckoned with in 2011.
Issue of 30-year notes a big hit; hiked reward for standing out on the yield curve
Nimble investors could jump on some attractive acquisition candidates ahead of the unfolding 2011 takeover wave, according to the latest research from Morningstar Inc.
Bond king believes predictions of wave of local bankruptcies greatly exaggerated
SEC approval would generate rush of similar requests, observers say; actively managed fund likely to be launched this summer
