First the good news: The S&P 500 should climb by about 19 percent or so from yesterday’s close, says mutual fund manager Steve Leuthold in his firm’s “Green Book” monthly research report, released this morning. Now the bad...
Welcome to the New Normal, a ghoulish economic scenario. But there are some tweaks investors can make to their portfolios to protect against the apocalypse.
The financial markets enter 2010 on a much calmer note than they entered 2009, when the worst effects of the financial crisis were still being felt. By mid-December 2009, the S&P 500 rallied from its March 2009 low of 666 to nearly 1,100, the Dow...
Hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt and online brokerage pioneer Blake Darcy recently opened an online managed account service for retail investors. Can Greenblatt's star power take asset management online?
The year 2009 was very rough on retirement accounts. Not only did they take a hit from the economic downturn, but also many suffered because of swindlers like Bernard Madoff. And some were drained by the very rules, bureaucracies and agencies set...
