Portfolio Construction
Keep up with the latest news on key elements for successful portfolio construction including asset allocation, asset management options and investment strategies.
Prudential Financial takes risk on $2.2 billion L&G portfolio
By Laura DavisonThe contract covers about 1.35 billion pounds ($2.2 billion) of bulk annuities.
October 24, 2014
Top Portfolio Products: First Trust Launches Eurozone ETFMeanwhile, Global X adds two ETFs based on JPMorgan's Efficiente and U.S. Sector Rotator indexes.
October 24, 2014
Does the World Have Too Many Active Managers?Only a small subset of the active managers and the hedge funds are useful to society, Towers Watson's new think tank says.
October 24, 2014
SEC Wants Exchange-Traded Funds to Be Easy to TradeAn efficient-markets-fundamentalism model of the SEC is actually pretty good for predicting what the SEC will do. Except about insider trading, I guess.
October 23, 2014
Can We Do Better Than Traditional 60/40 Portfolios?Diversification is a simple concept, but putting it into practice effectively is not so simple.
October 22, 2014
Top 25 U.S. Charities: 2014The Chronicle of Philanthropy ranks the top charities by private donations, with four of the top 10 DAFs, including those of Fidelity, Schwab and Vanguard.
October 22, 2014
Former PIMCO Parent Pacific Life Moves Accounts to JanusPacific Life is moving some money to Bill Gross new firm, Janus, which said the decision pre-dated Gross exit.
October 21, 2014
How Chess Can Make You RichA grandmaster and financial advisor look at investing through the tactics of the chessboard to get a more objective view of how to become rich.