Predicts holders of stock will 'lose a lot of money in next 18 months'
Sure, investors have fled the stock market. Ask them why and many say the market's gotten too unpredictable, too scary. But new research shows those fears are overblown.
The NBER says the recession ended in June 2009. But an exclusive <i>InvestmentNews</i> survey reveals most advisers think the economy is still hurting, with 'effects that will linger for months and years to come.'
As the Securities and Exchange Commission wrestles with the task of defining a standard of care for anyone who gives investment advice to retail clients, executives at TD Ameritrade Inc. aren't having a difficult time with the issue.
The U.S. economy stands a 31% chance of double-dipping into recession in the next year.
In two cases involving the hedging of appreciated stock positions, the U.S. Tax Court recently ruled that the investors who took the cases to court should be taxed as if they had sold their stock at the time that they entered into the hedging transactions.
With tax rates on dividends expected to go higher next year, financial advisers should start assessing the risk-reward ratio of owning dividend-paying U.S. companies, according to report today by Howard Silverblatt, senior index analyst at S&P Indices.
Investors are moving more money than ever before out of stocks and into bonds, widening a valuation gap and convincing some major fund companies and investors that now is the time to buy equities.
Citigroup Inc.'s private bank will triple the number of hedge funds such as Paulson & Co. that its wealthy clients can invest in, under a push to increase money-management revenue.
Bullish fund managers like Michael Shaoul and Laszlo Birinyi score big while bearish rivals keeping waiting for the economy to turn grisly
While life insurers continue to cling to their cash, a boom in mergers and acquisitions may be just around the corner, according to an analyst with Moody's Investors Service Inc.
Move frees company to focus on asset management; insurance less profitable
Lam sees little chance of economic relapse; 'prolonged period of mild growth'
Westwood Holdings Group Inc. Ticker:(WHG) today announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire McCarthy Group Advisors LLC in a deal that is expected to close by the end of the year.
David Dreman, the fund manager best known for against-the-grain bets on stocks he deems cheap, will step down as co-chief investment officer of Dreman Value Management LLC.
This just in: The recession that started in December 2007 ended in June 2009, according to the official arbiter of the U.S. business cycle.
The longest and deepest U.S. recession since the Great Depression ended in June 2009, lasting 18 months, the National Bureau of Economic Research said.
Free money? Big bank consolidation? Extend and pretend? If this all sounds awfully familiar, you're on to something.
The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. is disbanding its distribution arm, Hartford Life Distributors, and decentralizing its wholesalers among four recently established business units.
