Fixed Income Investments can offer a steady stream of income and less risk when compared to stocks. Latest analysis on these investments and the impact to your portfolio.
Banks attribute the recent decline in equity trading -- and push to safer Treasuries -- to worries about the U.S. election, Brexit and the timing of a rate hike by the Federal Reserve.
The Federal Reserve, as you probably know, has a dual mandate: to maximize employment and to stabilize prices. Every month, the Fed gets graded on its inflation obligation when the Consumer Price Index (CPI) is updated.
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Resplendent with controversy and mudslinging, this election cycle has chided investors into increasing their cash holdings, says a new survey from BlackRock. More than half of investors have decided to only increase their cash holdings and no...
Over the last three years, Geneva-based Pictet Asset Management has partnered with U.S.-based distributors to launch mutual funds here, including a foreign large-cap blend fund and small-cap international stock fund. So far, the firm has...
(Bloomberg) -- Looking for a reason to buy equities 7 1/2 years into a bull market? Consider a study that examines an imbalance in stock and bond prices that stretches back half a century...
(Bloomberg) - In a world awash with negative yields, some of the savviest bond investors in emerging markets look at today’s wars, riots and even the candidacy of Donald Trump as rare money-making opportunities...
(Bloomberg View) -- When I talk to friends in asset management, I often hear them express a deep, gnawing worry about low interest rates. Fears that low rates would spark inflation, or cause governments to default on their debt, seem to have...
Most market observers continue to point to the absurdity of equity price levels and inherent valuations, but the truth of the matter is that the one truly expensive market, on an unprecedented and global scale, is fixed income (with a few excepti...