Merger and acquisitions activity could make a comeback in the insurance sector this year after a sharp drop in the deal numbers and valuations in 2008, according to a Deloitte report. The increase in dealmaking would be driven by the fact that...
After collapsing 94 percent from its peak in June 2008, the Baltic Dry Index, which measures global daily prices for shipping raw materials, is up 427 percent year-to-date (through June 22). It still needs to climb another 189 percent in order to...
The central tenet of Modern Portfolio Theory is that diversification should maximize your portfolio's return at any given level of risk tolerance. Or, as David Swensen, the chief investment officer of Yale's endowment, puts it: Forget about...
