Emerging markets remain red-hot among investors, but rather than just making a broad sector bet, advisers should look for specific and strategic exposure to these economies as a way to minimize risk and take advantage of sweet deals.
Rep. Schakowsky want big increase in marginal rates for millionaires, billionaires
Citigroup Inc., the third-biggest U.S. bank, was ordered to pay more than $51 million to a group of investors in its MAT and ASTA municipal-bond hedge funds, which regulators began examining more than two years ago.
Dan Fuss, manager of the $19.4 billion Loomis Sayles Bond Fund, currently has just 2.51% of his portfolio in U.S. Treasuries, and his allocations to government debt aren't likely to change anytime soon.
U.S. millionaires would face an annual income tax increase of at least 10% under a deficit reduction measure proposed by Rep. Jan Schakowsky, R-Ill
Former Fidelity distribution head Peter Cieszko will join American Century in a new position heading up intermediary and institutional sales in North America
The mutual fund industry will be one of the targets of more-aggressive enforcement by the SEC, according to experts who spoke last week at an Investment Company Institute conference
Asset manager set to launch customized programs for broker-dealers
Institutional investors increasingly are thinking outside the U.S. Barclays Capital Aggregate box for their fixed-income allocations, but market veterans say that it will be a long time before there are more-global mandates
To prevent another instance of a money market fund's “breaking the buck,” the Securities and Exchange Commission is discussing placing capital requirements on such funds
The U.K. government proposed replacing its current means-tested state pension with a flat-rate payment of about 140 pounds ($225) a week, with the goal of increasing incentives for people to save for their old age.
With regulators inching closer to setting a universal fiduciary standard for all financial advisers, mutual fund companies may want to brace for the shift
In 2,300 pages of legislation overhauling the U.S. financial regulatory system, there is no section or subsection entitled “mutual funds,” an indication that they were not seen as a primary culprit in the market crisis that shook the economy three years ago.
Pimco boss says country's high savings rate, repatriation of overseas capital will help country overcome disaster
If municipal bond investors can stomach continued negative headlines — and some defaults over the next few months — they will find some compelling investment opportunities, BlackRock Inc. executives said last Thursday at a press gathering
A recent court decision against Pacific Life Insurance Co. may give advisers and broker-dealers legal leverage against insurers that take too long to perform Section 1035 exchanges of variable life policies.
McMillan also bemoans pace of reform, saying firms still not sure if they'll be deemed too big too fail
Retirement funds not even close to what employees say they'll likely need; confidence level lowest in 20 years
With volatility in the financial markets creeping up last week in the wake of the unrest in Egypt, this is not a time for knee-jerk investment decisions, according to money managers and market analysts
