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It's Time For New Thinking On Asset Allocation For Retirees
By Mathew GreenwaldThere is a widely held view among financial advisors that seems sub-optimal. This is the idea that retirees' asset allocations should become increasingly conservative as ...
March 01, 2008
Emerging Into a DownturnAfter years of outperforming the U.S. market, emerging markets, as measured by the SCI Emerging Markets index, topped out last October, moving downward in fits...
March 01, 2008
Target Practice"Target date funds have been arguably the biggest newsmaker this decade in the defined contribution business," notes John Rekenthaler, vice president of research and new...
March 01, 2008
About the managerIn addition to managing the Icon International Equity Fund, Scott Snyder is VP, investments, at Icon Funds, and a senior member of Icon's investment committee....
March 01, 2008
IRA Owners Guard Assets, But Are Minority in U.S.Some 70 percent of those who own Individual Retirement Accounts plan to defer withdrawals from these accounts as long as possible, according to a new...
March 01, 2008
Legg Mason Names Fetting New CEOLegg Mason has appointed Mark R. Fetting, 53, as the firm's president and CEO, with Legg Mason co-founder and Chairman Raymond "Chip" Mason serving as...
March 01, 2008
A New Global Force?Sovereign wealth funds -- government-owned funds often amassed from petrodollar surpluses and geared toward investment in foreign industrial and financial assets -- have become seemingly...