Much like the television comedy Seinfeld, which celebrated its 25th anniversary this past Saturday, July 5, 2014, the second quarter earnings season is likely to be “a show about nothing.”
Investment programs move to a new broker dealer for a variety of reasons – sometimes to enliven a dormant program, sometimes to grow revenue for the institution, or sometimes, just to start a brand new program. Rarely does a broker dealer...
For decades, laddered portfolios – where individual bonds are “laddered” to progressively longer maturities – have been used by many investors in their fixed-income portfolios. However, the bond market has undergone changes, such as increased...
Investors worldwide are at an impasse on reaching their financial goals, relying on little more than gut instinct as a guide to investing success despite admitted lack of investment knowledge, according to a recent survey from Natixis Global Asse...
As U.S. economic growth gathers pace, yields on 10-year U.S. Treasuries should shift higher over the next two to three years, eventually moving as high as 3.75-4 percent.
While a broad-based secular increase in inflation will be a problem that ...
New rules released today would make it possible to access longevity annuities in retirement plans without being subject to required minimum distribution regulations. But will it get buy-in?
Equity markets experienced a strong first half of the year, and stock prices already advanced to where we originally thought they would be at year-end. Bond prices rose as yields fell, with the Federal Reserve continuing its monthly tapering of a...
A lot of smart people are betting on rising interest rates and a coming bear market in bonds. Yet, people have been calling for an end to the decline in interest rates for years, said Dennis Gartman, editor and publisher of The Gartman Letter...
