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What top-performing investment strategists and portfolio managers are thinking about the latest market trends and how to build high-performing portfolios.
PIMCO’s Gross Warns to Flee Treasuries, Dollar Assets: Morningstar Confab
By Kenneth SilberPIMCO principal Bill Gross painted a gloomy picture of U.S. investment prospects during his opening keynote address on June 8 at the Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago. He encouraged the audience of financial advisors to seek investment opportunities outside the Treasury market and away from dollar-based markets more generally.
June 02, 2011
Mass Affluent’s Top Reason for Picking an AdvisorWhere once the mass affluent looked to performance and risk level, they have changed their reasons in 2011 when picking an investment provider, according to data from Spectrem Group in its new report, "Mass Affluent Investors 2011, Vol. 1," released Wednesday.
June 01, 2011
The Seven Attitudes of Intuitive InvestorsInvestors can fine-tune their intuitive and meditative skills in order to make more solid, grounded decisions.
June 01, 2011
Both Sides Now: Using All of Your Brain to Make Good DecisionsSuccessful investing, says Jason Apollo Voss, is as much an intuitive, creative process as it is a product of linear, analytical thinking. Only when processes from both sides of the brain are properly combined can we make good decisions.
June 01, 2011
Broker-Dealer Omni Brokerage Closes Its DoorsBD accused of selling unsuitable real estate investments.
May 25, 2011
Blaine Aikin, fi360: The Extended 2011 IA 25 ProfileBlaine Aikin is so steeped in the fiduciary issue that IA columnist Bob Clark believes Aikin is one of a handful of people responsible for bringing it to the forefront.
May 25, 2011
Chinese Commercial Property Target of New Mutual FundMapletree Investments of Singapore said Wednesday that it planned to launch a new mutual fund targeted toward commercial property in China.
May 20, 2011
Winning Ariel Fund Highlights Warren Buffett’s ‘Moats’John W. Rogers Jr.’s socially responsible Ariel Fund beat or nearly met its benchmarks using Warren Buffett’s “moats” concept.