Economy
Towers Watson: Money managers cautious about economy
Political and capital markets turmoil in the second half of 2011 has left money managers significantly more cautious about the prospects for economic growth and investment returns in 2012, according...
February 15, 2012 | 03:22 pm
Fidelity, PIMCO, Vanguard say inflation won’t be a problem this year
Fidelity Investments, Vanguard Group Inc. and Pacific Investment Management Co., which together oversee $4.53 trillion, say U.S. inflation will be contained this year.
February 14, 2012 | 12:09 pm
Ford has better idea for full funding: Cut plan risk, reduce equity exposure
Ford Motor Co. is lowering risk of its pension plans, a strategy that includes making an outsize discretionary contribution that could mean gaining a better return for its corporate cash than keeping ...
February 06, 2012
UTIMCO trustee urges endowment to hold gold hedge
Kyle Bass, the Dallas hedge fund manager, urged overseers of Texas' state university endowment, the University of Texas Investment Management Co., to stick with a $1 billion investment in gold...
February 03, 2012 | 09:54 am
BlackRock's Doll disagrees with PIMCO's Gross, says QE3 unlikely
Bob Doll of BlackRock Inc. says the Federal Reserve will refrain from conducting a third round of debt purchases as the economy grows.
January 31, 2012 | 04:12 pm
Federal Reserve keeps rates low through 2014
Federal Reserve on Wednesday announced it will keep the federal funds rate within a zero to 0.25% target for at least two years and will continue reinvesting principal from its securities holdings.
January 25, 2012 | 01:28 pm
The dawning of the Age of Austerity
As we start a new year, many are asking what the unprecedented events of 2011 mean for investors in the months ahead. PIMCO COO Douglas Hodge offers some thoughts.
January 23, 2012
Budget puts military pension plan in cross hairs
Federal budget woes are forcing once-untouchable military pensions onto the cutting board as the Pentagon faces $450 billion in budget cuts over the next decade and an unfunded pension liability...
January 23, 2012
Small-cap stocks fall short of large-cap brethren in 2011
Small-cap stocks underperformed large-cap stocks in 2011, but dividends increased faster among smaller companies than among larger ones last year, according to an annual report by the London Business ...
January 20, 2012 | 03:27 pm
Callan: U.S. bonds see best returns in 2011
Domestic fixed income had the best year of all asset classes in a year of significant volatility, according to the Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns 1992-2011.
January 16, 2012 | 12:22 pm
Credit investing in ‘demerging' Europe
With no lasting resolution to the European financial crisis in sight, the question for many investors is how to invest given the potential macroeconomic and political instability for the foreseeable...
January 12, 2012 | 08:57 am
Institutional investors are optimistic for the new year
Many institutional investment strategists believe the S&P 500 generally will return more than 10% in 2012, even though they expect the U.S. economic growth rate to be slow and unemployment to remain...
January 09, 2012
Northern Trust: Managers big on U.S. growth, concerned over Europe
Institutional money managers are more confident about the U.S. economy, but they still see the European debt crisis as the largest threat to equity markets, according to a quarterly survey by...
January 09, 2012 | 04:14 pm
Using social media data as a trading indicator
If your New Year's resolution is to harness social media and really make it work for you, a collaboration between Gnip Inc. and StockTwits could provide an easier way to meet your goal.
January 09, 2012
BlackRock's Doll: 2012 economy to rise or fall on Europe, U.S. quick fixes
The European debt crisis will begin to ease while the U.S. economy “muddles” through another year with modest earnings growth, Bob Doll, BlackRock chief equity strategist for fundamental...