Despite a generally bearish outlook for most global markets, Gerald Buetow, chief investment officer at Innealta Capital, talks about ways to navigate through the carnage, even if that means sometimes turning to cash as a hedge.
Jerry Thunelius takes four of his fixed-income-unit members with him; were they operating in Pimco's shadow?
President Barack Obama signed a major health care overhaul bill Today. Here are some of its features, along with details on a package of changes to the legislation under consideration by the Senate this week.
For a look at the retirement products advisers can expect in 2010, the insights of some literary greats — Charles Dickens, Voltaire, Lord Byron and Jane Austen — may be more illuminating than you would imagine.
Although the selection of a bond fund executive to lead equity-oriented Janus Capital Inc. stunned industry watchers last week, Richard M. Weil — the former Pimco chief operating officer — may be just what the $152 billion fund company needs.
John Hancock Funds LLC and MFS Investment Management have separately made changes to their compensation programs to encourage wholesalers to diversify the funds they sell and the advisers to whom they sell them.
High-income families would be hit with a tax increase on wages and a new levy on investments under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul bill.
President Barack Obama's health plan proposal would extend Medicare taxes to the investment income of higher-earning households.
Property values have now risen by almost 15% since hitting their lows in May 2009, according to Green Street Advisors Inc., but values are still off about 30% from their late 2007 peak.
With regulators and lawmakers continuing to scrutinize the blowup of target date funds in 2008, AllianceBernstein LP is adding a component to its lineup of target date funds aimed at managing market volatility better.
With regulators and lawmakers continuing to scrutinize the blowup of target date funds in 2008, AllianceBernstein LP is adding a component to its lineup of target date funds aimed at managing market volatility better.
American International Group Inc. recently made several high-level appointments and agreed to sell some assets, but recruiting talent and repaying government debt will remain challenges, according to experts.
Funds also saw higher flows due to investors' improving confidence in the market, and target-date funds' popularity as a qualified default investment option in 401(k) plans
Which bond funds are producing equity-like returns this year?
Five of the seven top-performing target date funds are composed of only proprietary funds, according to a report released today.
The American Council of Life Insurers today blasted a newly floated tax proposal on unearned income — part of a series of suggested changes to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2009.
Money managers and financial advisers need to start looking beyond domestic equity and other traditional asset classes for risk-adjusted returns in the current market, according to Kevin Mahn, chief investment officer with Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc.
Invesco Ltd. is likely to keep intact most of the Morgan Stanley/Van Kampen operations <a href= http://www.investmentnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091019/FREE/910199972/1022/ONLINENEWS >which it said last night that it will acquire for $1.5 billion</a> — although some changes to the $119 billion retail money management business it's buying are expected — Martin Flanagan, president and chief executive of Invesco, said in an interview with InvestmentNews.
The current environment is most definitely a stock-picker's market, says the firm's managing director. His advice? Focus more on company fundamentals than sectors or the economy
