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RETIREMENT RETIREMENT PLANNING OCT 01, 2013
Gundlach to oversee $450M in annuities push

The manager of the top-performing DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund, is expanding to variable annuities by subadvising a fund modeled after his flagship for Prudential Plc's Jackson National Life Insurance.

INVESTING FIXED INCOME OCT 01, 2013
Gundlach's DoubleLine Fund has third month of net redemptions

Jeffrey Gundlach's DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund, which has beaten 97% of rivals over the past three years, had its third straight month of net withdrawals as investors continued to flee bonds.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS SEP 27, 2013
Bracing for Japanese fiscal crisis

A former adviser to billionaire George Soros and now a member of Japan's upper house of parliament, said a fiscal crisis in Asia's second- biggest economy is inevitable and neither a higher sales tax nor the 2020 Olympics will be able to stop it.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS SEP 27, 2013
A 'full-scale rout' on trading?

Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Morgan Stanley had their earnings estimates lowered by Brad Hintz, a Sanford C. Bernstein & Co. analyst, amid a decline in trading he called “a full-scale rout.”

INVESTING FIXED INCOME SEP 27, 2013
Treasuries rise after Fed officials say economy needs support

Treasury 10-year note yields dropped to almost the lowest level this month as Federal Reserve Bank of New York President William C. Dudley said the U.S. economy has yet to show “any meaningful pickup” in momentum.

INVESTING FIXED INCOME SEP 27, 2013
Gross: Fed will still taper after jobs report

“I think Bernanke and company are committed to a taper,” Pimco co-founder says.

INVESTING FIXED INCOME SEP 27, 2013
Pimco Total Return Fund loses 14% of assets in four-month rout

The world's biggest mutual fund keeps getting smaller.

INVESTING ALTERNATIVES SEP 24, 2013
Investment managers expect markets to survive Fed tapering

Hedge-fund managers from Stanley Druckenmiller to Fortress Investment Group LLC's Michael Novogratz and Passport Capital LLC's John Burbank said U.S. stocks will continue to do well this year even as the Federal Reserve gradually reduces its asset purchases.

INVESTING FIXED INCOME SEP 23, 2013
Demand strong as ever as institutions bid for bond sales

Demand for new Treasuries from their biggest owners is proving impervious to rising yields and the retreat of Wall Street dealers.

NEWS INDUSTRY NEWS SEP 23, 2013
BlackRock sees Chinese growth surprise as bond risk slides

BlackRock expects China's economy to “surprise on the upside” for the rest of the year, after the cost of insuring the nation's debt fell the most in Asia this quarter.