Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Merkel Battles Headwinds at Home Over Greece
By Marlene Y. SatterChancellor Merkel of Germany took to the airwaves over the weekend to try to quell ever-louder exitmongering talks among her political colleagues at home as they declared that Greece should depart the eurozone.
August 24, 2012
Roubini: GOP’s Gold Standard Dream Would Cause DepressionIt might be a relatively slow day for the markets, but the Twitteratiincluding Nouriel Roubini and PIMCO's Bill Grossare abuzz.
August 24, 2012
Pre-Retiree Income Crushed Since Beginning of ‘Recovery’Maybe recovery no longer means what we think. A new report from Sentier Research finds that almost every cohort it studied is worse off now than it was three years ago.
August 24, 2012
Advanced Persuasion Techniques for Top Producers, Part 1Pushing your clients to achieve big goals is easier when you add a little motivational muscle to your pitch.
August 24, 2012
Top Portfolio Products: Goldman Offers Income Builder FundIn addition, Russell Investments announced that it will close all its U.S. passively managed ETFs.
August 24, 2012
Germany Doubles Down on GreeceGerman officials seem to be backing away from earlier hints that leniency would be possible toward Greece on complying with the budget constraints of its bailout package.
August 23, 2012
We Have Not Been SavedWhile Nouriel Roubini or Jeremy Grantham can be counted on to deliver prophecies of doom dressed up in the dismal prose of the economics profession, the original doomsayerthe prophet Jeremiahexpressed himself far more vividly, and his poetry speaks to our times.
August 23, 2012
How to Get High Performance With Low Risk From New StrategyRecent studies find that high-beta stocks dont perform as well as they should, and that low-beta stocks do better than the model would predict. But why?