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Strategic Insight: VA Lifecycle Assets Top $266 Billion in 2011
By Warren S. HerschVariable annuities at year-end 2011 accounted for $266 billion of lifecycle assets, with nearly all (96%) of the assets residing in target risk strategies, the report finds. The $255 billion variable target risk market attracted $4.0 billion of net flows, while posting net returns of 5.68% during the quarter. Variable...
March 06, 2012
Portuguese Bond Yields RisePortugal may be in need of a second bailoutor so it seems from its sovereign bond yields, which have risen steadily despite a flood of cash from the European Central Bank that is flowing to other investment targets.
March 02, 2012
Top Portfolio Products: E*Trade Launches Bond Center; Goldman Adds New FundsThe latest iShares debut, as well as details on a new REIT and the latest annuity introductions.
March 01, 2012
ECB’s Trillion-Euro Giveaway Offers Limited Time for Reform: News AnalysisThe ECBs liquidity lifeline to bankslike Americas QE policyoffers a chance to avoid a deeper economic depression, but only if that window of opportunity is used to make sustained structural reforms that policymakers on both sides of the Atlantic have so far avoided.
March 01, 2012
CDS Not Triggered by Greek Bailout: ISDAThe bailout of Greece involving an exchange of sovereign bonds did not constitute a credit event and therefore need not trigger credit default swaps to pay creditors, according to the International Swaps & Derivatives Association.
March 01, 2012
Bill Gross Brings Active Management to PIMCO Total Return ETF LaunchWith the launch of the PIMCO Total Return ETF, managed by Bill Gross, investors are closely watching to see how his active management of an ETF fares.
February 29, 2012
Sallie Krawcheck: Money-Market Funds Aren't What You ThinkIts been a little over three years since the Reserve Primary Money Market Fund "broke the buck," and Sallie Krawcheck took to the pages of The Wall Street Journal on Wednesday to reveal surprising facts about the stability of the money-market fund industry since.