(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...
The mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, founded seven decades ago and run ever since by the Johnson family, has won the trust of tens of millions of investors...
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...
(Bloomberg Gadfly) -- This is the year investors revolted...
We finally got a break in gold prices on Tuesday. And now there’s plenty of punditry explaining why. British PM Theresa May was named a culprit by many observers for talking down sterling (read: talking up the Yankee dollar) as she laid out a Bre...
(Bloomberg) -- BlackRock Inc., the world’s largest provider of exchange-traded funds, is cutting prices across its core ETFs in anticipation of a new U.S. rule that may prompt more investors to pour into passive funds...
(Bloomberg) -- Federal Reserve officials are warning investors not to rule out an interest-rate increase as soon as the central bank’s next meeting in November. The bond market’s response? We’re not buying it...
Alternative investments shop 361 Capital plans to acquire BRC Investment Management, which provides separately managed account strategies primarily for institutional investors. The deal is 361’s first acquisition and first foray into the...