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John Hancock Reports Rise in Investor Confidence
By Warren S. HerschInvestor sentiment improved to +21 in the first quarter of this year, compared with a score of +15 in the fourth quarter of 2011, the most substantial increase since the Index was started in early 2011, the report says.
April 02, 2012
Investors Say No to Greek Bond RestructuringInvestors holding Greek sovereign debt issued under foreign laws and denominated in dollars, euros, Swiss francs and yen said no to a Greek restructuring plan, leaving the country to find another way through its debt maze as it seeks to avoid outright financial collapse.
March 30, 2012
How Are Guns N’ Roses and TCW Fund the Same? Reformed Broker Has AnswerDowntown Josh Brown, the Twitterati's favorite Reformed Broker, is at it again, stirring up trouble this time by comparing TCW's recent performance with Guns n Roses.
March 30, 2012
Top Portfolio Products: New Funds From Linde Hansen, Pyxis CapitalNew products introduced over the last week include a contrarian value fund from Linde, Hansen & Co. and a natural resources fund from Pyxis Capital.
March 30, 2012
Tim Guinness: China, Energy and Really Good Beer—Weekend InterviewChina is the best-run country in the world," the Guinness Atkinson Funds CIO says.
March 30, 2012
Ireland to Use Bond, Not Cash, to Make PaymentIreland will make a scheduled payment of 3.1 billion euros to the Irish Bank Resolution Corp. at the end of March with a bond, not with bailout cash.
March 30, 2012
Euro Zone Agrees on FirewallThe temporary European Financial Stability Facility and permanent European Stability Mechanism will be combined for a year, for a total of 940 billion euros. But that figure seems to include money already spent.
March 29, 2012
Is Delaware Funds’ Ericksen the Next ‘Star’ Manager?The time is right for the emergence of a new star manager, and it could very well be Delaware Select Growth Funds manager Christopher Ericksen.