Stocks
The stock market news and analysis you need to know when developing, monitoring and adjusting client portfolios.
Road to retirement shouldn’t be paved with stocks
By Staff WriterAdvisors should be instructing clients to work longer, cut spending and use a reverse mortgage, according to a new study.
August 13, 2012
What Bubble? Dividend Stocks Continue to Pay Off for Income Seekers: Global XDespite market buzz that dividend-paying stocks are nearing bubble-like proportions, investor demand keeps driving Global X Funds to create new income-producing ETFs, CEO Bruno del Ama said Monday.
August 09, 2012
Dividend NationThe world of stock dividends appears to be at a kind of crossroads these days.
August 06, 2012
Warren Buffett Drops Consumer Stocks, Buys Into BanksBillionaire investor Warren Buffett backed away from stocks in the second quarter, reducing the companys holdings in consumer-products equities but investing more heavily in the finance sector.
August 02, 2012
PIMCO’s Gross Slams Draghi, Says Jeremy Siegel Belongs in ‘Ivory Tower’The co-CIO of PIMCO said Draghi should have offered concrete policy steps at Thursdays ECB policy meeting.
August 02, 2012
Putting women in charge pays off, big time (Huffington Post)In the last six years, small to mid-size companies with at least one female board member have performed 17% better than those without.
August 01, 2012
Market ‘Convexity’ Makes Stocks a Tough Short—Searching for Alpha for August 2012A stock rally could drown the water-treading short-sellers.
July 31, 2012
PIMCO’s Gross: ‘The Cult of Equity Is Dying’Bill Gross is causing quite a stir (again). The chairman of PIMCO wrote in his August commentary that, going forward, investors will not experience the annual 6.6% real return on equities that they have seen since 1912.