Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
A move toward more equal distribution of wealth?
By Brian Anderson"The rich get richer" may not be an accurate adage anymore. Economists pouring through data are saying - with increasing frequency - that the rich as a group are no longer getting richer.
September 01, 2009
Can Bonds Continue to Outperform?Bonds have outperformed stocks by a large margin over the past year because of the financial crisis, and they've also roughly matched stocks over the...
September 01, 2009
Value Versus GrowthOver time, value stocks have outperformed growth stocks and have done so with a lower standard deviation (see first table below). The coefficient of variation...
September 01, 2009
Growing Amid TurbulenceInvesting in your own backyard may be easy enough, but what about investing in backyards around the globe? One way to do this is with...
September 01, 2009
Numerology: Kids Ain't CheapThose same friendly people who brought you the Food Pyramid have been tracking the cost of raising a child since 1960, and not surprisingly, it's...
September 01, 2009
Hard Times in Office SpaceWho: William E. Hartman, Executive Vice President, Cushman & Wakefield Where: Nocello, 257 West 55th Street, New York City, July 27, 2009 On the Menu: Gnocchi, salmon...
September 01, 2009
The Leveling RecessionEconomists often derive ironclad "laws of economics" from very small samples of data observed over a very short time period. Remember the Phillips curve, which...
September 01, 2009
The Shape of Things to ComeThere have been lots of headlines recently about an emerging economic recovery. July unemployment ticked down to 9.4 percent from 9.5 percent, as the economy...