Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Lifetime Income Products Debut
By Staff WriterFidelity Investments unveiled a group of retirement income products and online applications for advisors and clients, October 3, aimed at helping retirees generate more predictable monthly cash flow streams for certain time horizons, or for life.
October 01, 2007
Like Bananas, Big News Comes in BunchesOne of the most prominent features of the U.S. economy in the last two decades has been a consistent decline in volatility. Recent volatility, however, points to a potential increase of the metric to more historical levels.
October 01, 2007
Behind the Numbers, with Richard BernsteinIn a recent conference call to investors, Merrill Lynch's chief investment strategist had some comments both about equity returns and volatility. "We still expect kind...
October 01, 2007
Catching up with... Milton EzratiThere has been a bit of turmoil in the economic markets in recent months, making many investors--and their advisors--a bit skittish. Milton Ezrati, senior economic...
October 01, 2007
The Prada, Coach ETFIt was a busy summer for Claymore Securities. Besides introducing the Claymore/Zacks Country Rotation (CRO) and the Claymore/Zacks International Yield Hog Index (HGI) exchange-traded funds, the...
October 01, 2007
Success or Excess?In mid-August, international financial markets began seriously to wobble. Initially, the subprime mortgage crisis, affecting only a small, risky portion of the enormous U.S. residential...
October 01, 2007
Shopping the Bond MarketIt didn't seem this lunch was going to happen. Tom Ricketts, president and CEO of Incapital, was taking a morning flight from Chicago, where the private...
October 01, 2007
Risky RussiaSoon after Russia's debt default and ruble devaluation in 1998, I had a talk with a money manager with expertise in emerging markets. Professionals know...