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Japan, it may surprise you to learn, has the highest level of government debt to GDP of any country—at 250 percent. That’s higher than government debt ratios in Greece, Spain, Italy or Ireland. Brett Gallagher, MBA, of Artio Global Management, a...
A top institutional and family wealth advisor from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has joined HighTower, the Chicago-based national registered investment advisor, providing the RIA with a foothold in the Southwest. James Pupillo, 54, managed $2.5...
A majority of advisors are marketing themselves as financial “planners,” even though they really don’t provide comprehensive planning services, according to a recent Cerulli Associates report. By adopting the nomenclature, they are hoping they can...
Margin pressure, upheaval in advisory business models, lack of certainty in the market – most of the current trends in the wealth management industry can be traced back to the global financial crisis in 2008. Three years after the world fell apart...
Short equities. Why? Logically, it is clear that no one can spend more money than he has forever. It is also clear that there is too little political will to raise that critical fact as a reason for forcing the unpleasant changes in Europe (or Am...
If we had to sum up the current investment environment in one word, it would be World financial markets are currently extremely fragile as Europe heads towards recession, the United States faces the possibility of a double dip (or at least...
One of an investor's biggest bugaboos is inflation. Like a termite infestation, virulent inflation can eat at the integrity of a portfolio, turning it into a porous structure that leaks capital.
When most investors think of inflation, it's usual...