Von Aldo

The FT reports today that “overseas investors bought up Japanese equities at the fastest pace in three years in January as global asset managers rebalanced portfolios towards the country’s equity market from underweight positions.” ...

At last week’s TD Ameritrade Institutional’s national conference last week, there was much discussion about China. Is China’s growing economic might good for the U.S.? For the world? Is China, given its despotic government, something to fear? Can...

Barclays Wealth is going after HNW clients in the Americas; it hired 50 FAs in '09, plans to add more than 100 in '10 to bring to about 500.

At TD Ameritrade's National Conference. About 1,200 advisors here, up by 30 percent from a year ago.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch has stated that it will hire 2,000 more brokers to its global wealth management division during next year, says Aite Group, a financial services consultancy. We've written extensively on this subject. ...

The news from today's Times (of London) should be carefully read by American politicians who would raise taxes on America's top earners: ...

I have never understood the concept of the fiscal multiplier effect, wherein the government takes money out of the private economy and then disperses to fund, say, fixing roads and other infrastructure projects. Advocates say that is "creates jobs...