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Investors are in a risk-on mood: BofA
A survey of fund manages shows rising preference for Europe, emerging markets stocks.
Investors ignoring renewables opportunity, Goldman Sachs says
The green stocks sell-off in 2023 may have clouded vision, says GSAM leader.
Investors should prepare to buy the dip as rally eases
Strategists see potential of 8.5% gain for S&P 500 by end of 2024.
Can investors still rely on strategists?
Many have been forced to admit they got forecasts wrong in 2023.
Investor appetite for ETFs on the rise: Schwab
ETFs expected to make up a growing share of investor portfolios in the year ahead, according to Charles Schwab & Co.’s ETF Investor Study.
Bond defaults mean almost total losses in new era of bankruptcies
Bondholders are getting back just a few cents on the dollar as a result of weakened covenants, explosion in corporate debt
Obama targets financial fraud with special unit
President Barack Obama is setting up an investigative unit to crack down on financial fraud, but it remains…
A decade of change for wealth managers
Bill McMahon was on the 69th floor of 2 World Trade Center — the South Tower — when the first plane hit the North Tower at 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001
Earthquake in Japan rattles U.S. investors
As the crisis in Japan continues to unfold, some worried U.S. investors have turned to their financial advisers for reassurance that the market won't suffer a 2008-like decline
High-wire act
Although SEC staff recommended a universal fiduciary duty, it left crucial details about disclosure parameters and harmonization of adviser and broker-dealer rules up to the agency's five commissioners
Clients take volatility in stride and remain calm, say advisers
Despite the spreading turmoil in North Africa and the Middle East, and an ominous rise in the price of oil, financial advisers say their clients are not pressing the panic button
Assets up despite dearth of institutional inflows
Asset inflows improved for many of the largest publicly traded money managers in the third quarter, but analysts said that institutional investors continued to hold off on new mandates
Advisers find clients extremely reluctant to think long-term
Getting clients to think long-term in terms of investing is easier said than done, particularly after the 2008 market meltdown and, more recently, the May 6 flash crash, said financial advisers who attended The Charles Schwab Corp.'s Impact conference in Boston last week
Who needs an adviser? Online investment sites gaining traction
If you're unhappy with your mutual fund, you can easily find another. After all, there are nearly 8,000 to choose from.
‘Sin’ stocks outpace market, proving recession-resistant
When it comes to the stock market, sin is in.
Beware of double-dip recession, investment managers warn
The U.S. economy could well be headed for another downturn — and financial advisers should direct clients to move their money out of the domestic equities market and into long-range opportunities overseas and alternative-asset classes, two well-known investment managers said last week.
Don’t push Big Pharma off a cliff just yet
It has been described as both a cliff and a wave, but whatever you call the fact that…
Advisers make a mad dash for cash
Desperate to hang on to the gains in their clients' portfolios over the past few months, financial advisers are selling positions and moving into cash.
The new normal: we’re all nuts
Read this issue of InvestmentNews, and you will find one thread running through several news stories and columns: irrationality (I am referring, of course, to the irrationality of investors and the public in general, not our coverage).
Sparked by a trading error, volatility returns
The stampede to the exits on Thursday illustrated to financial advisers and market strategists just how skittish investors have become, and especially how frightened they are about the instability of the European economy.
