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Investment managers are bullish on equities and emerging markets for the
coming year, but are less in agreement on how bonds will perform,
according to a recent survey.
These managers believe small-cap emerging market stocks may outpace their developed market counterparts by a healthy margin.
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Karen DeMasters
More financial advisors are worried their clients will not be able to
generate enough income to get through retirement than are the clients
themselves, says a survey of nearly 1,300 advisors.
Investors withdrew about $974 million from U.S. municipal-bond mutual
funds last week, the 14th-straight period of withdrawals, according to
Lipper US Fund Flows.
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Karen DeMasters
The first wave of baby boomers is hitting the retirement beach with investments worth less than four years ago and may be
hurting themselves by retreating too far into conservative
investments.
by Dan Moisand
Many retirees count on such investments to support them, but the truth is the income from them can vary, sometimes dramatically.
The quality of commercial mortgages being packaged into bonds is
declining as sales in that market soar, a Standard & Poor's analyst
said at a securitization industry conference.
Structured notes offer investors the chance to make
elaborate bets on the markets. But the funds' marketing
materials aren't much help in figuring out the odds of winning.
Nassim Taleb, author of "The Black Swan," said the "first thing"
investors should avoid is U.S. Treasuries and the second is the dollar.
Policy makers are robbing savers by driving down real interest rates as
they keep borrowing costs at record lows in a "devil's bargain," says Pimco's Bill Gross.
by Marla Brill
Several kinds of ETFs should benefit if prices and interest rates begin to rise.
Two sentences from Meredith Whitney set off a month of fireworks. She's standing tough, but others still question her prediction.
Advisors say they are fielding more calls from clients who want reassurance about their holdings in the muni bond market.
Junk bonds in Asian countries where infrastructure spending is fueling
growth, such as Indonesia, should offer the best returns in 2011.
Is the municipal bond market in the same state of denial as the equity
and mortgage-backed securities markets were in late 2007? Jeffrey
Gundlach, the founder of Doubleline who put together a...
Traders
say high-flying Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities may be poised to fall as consumer prices rise too
slowly to justify the gains.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission approved rules that will
require issuers of asset-backed securities to disclose repurchase
requests and completions related to the pooled assets.
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Karen DeMasters
Retirement plan advisors soon may be required to scrutinize target-date funds more closely.
by Dan Moisand
In retirement, a dollar in an IRA is worth less than a dollar in a taxable account, but financial advisors can position clients so they keep the most from withdrawals.
