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REITs outperformed the broader equity
market in the first quarter of 2011, according to the National
Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts.
U.S. executives are starting to spend the record $940
billion in cash they built up after the credit crisis, just in time for
annual shareholder meetings.
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MFS Investment Management took top U.S. Lipper Fund Awards 2011 honors and Delaware Management Company
swept in three categories.
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Karen DeMasters
What should a client do if she retires right before a severe market slide, turning any previous planning topsy-turvy?
Record earnings fueled by the highest profit margins
since 1993 are giving executives more leeway than ever to boost
dividends as the bull market enters its third year.
The money managers who picked the global stock market bottom say now is
no time to sell as the biggest equity rally since 1955 starts its third
year.
by Mitchell Eichen and Mark Pearlman
Advisors must adapt to the post-financial-crisis environment by rethinking their approaches for managing portfolios.
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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.
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Eric Rasmussen
Growth stocks are looking good, not only for what they promise in gains, but because they might be sweet deals.
These managers believe small-cap emerging market stocks may outpace their developed market counterparts by a healthy margin.
The biggest Standard & Poor's 500 Index rally in
more than five decades is forcing stock market bears to abandon short
sales, cutting them to the lowest level since 2007 last month.
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
Stocks in developed countries are rising the most since 1998 while
emerging markets slump, a sign the U.S. is returning to its role as the
engine of world growth aided by a recovery in Europe.
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
These clients may come back into the equity markets in a big way this year, says a new survey.
There's an emerging class of mutual funds that can be
described with scary words like opaque, volatile and-here come the
goose bumps-leverage.
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
A new rating system to help financial advisors understand and compare
exchange-traded funds was unveiled this week at the 4th Annual Inside
ETFs Conference.
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
To Mairs & Power fund manager Bill Frels, there's no place like home for finding good stocks.
The SEC has gave shareholders the right to weigh in on pay packages for top executives to increase scrutiny of compensation practices blamed for fueling Wall Street risk-taking.
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Dorothy Hinchcliff
Shareholders have filed resolutions with nine oil and gas companies,
pressing them to disclose their plans for risks associated with a controversial means of
extracting natural gas.
