Fund firms' reliance on faltering fixed-income sector a concern, analyst says
Municipal bond investors are trying to unload holdings at the fastest pace in at least 14 years amid increasing mutual fund redemptions and rising U.S. Treasury rates, shortly after analyst Meredith Whitney forecast “hundreds of billions of dollars” in municipal defaults.
Meredith Whitney went out on a limb -- way out -- with a jaw-dropping prediction on '60 Minutes.'
Bill Miller, Legg Mason's highly-touted stock picker, believes that President Obama's tax cut plan will be a shot in the arm for U.S. stocks.
With almost no place for interest rates to go but up, the distinction between individual bonds and mutual funds that invest in bonds is becoming increasingly important.
Mutual fund companies are beefing up their sales departments, a sure sign of optimism in an industry that was hit hard by the financial downturn
Nuveen Investments Inc., the asset manager owned by Madison Dearborn Partners LLC, plans to start a fund to buy corporate debt, the firm said in a prospectus filed today with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Open-end U.S. municipal-bond funds dropped an average 3.7 percent in the past month as investors withdrew money for the first time in seven months.
Right now, the increase in the cost of living is far outstripping returns on certificates of deposits -- even long-term CDs.
Animal lovers now have their own socially screened stock portfolio to cuddle up with — without the fear of fur balls, ticks or fleas
Pointing to improvements in corporate culture and stewardship grades, Morningstar Inc. has raised its ratings for J.P. Morgan Asset Management's SmartRetirement target date funds.
Entering mostly uncharted waters; 'not an easy place to be fishing for assets'
Pimco has dumped all its holdings in long-term U.S. debt, and bond king Bill Gross is now betting against Treasuries. But traders say the legendary fund manager couldn't be more wrong.
In the wake of the announcement that Columbia Management Investment Advisers LLC will buy Grail Advisors LLC, one of Grail's partners is still making plans to go it alone with active ETFs
Davies latest in a series of of top execs who've left the financial firm since CEO change in 2008
Index specialist Vanguard has set it sights on the ETF market in Europe. BlackRock, already the king of the continent, awaits.
Debt markets not flinching, says ING's Doug Cote, a good sign stocks will bounce back; 'buy on the dips'
Traditional portfolio construction using just long-only stocks and bonds is yesterday's story and no longer enough to generate real diversification and sustained performance, said Ricardo Cortez, senior portfolio management specialist at Broadmark Asset Management LLC.
Few investors grasp the damage inflation can do to long-term debt. But a new online tool from BondView might help bring clients' expectations in line with reality.
