Portfolio Construction
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Insurance Update: Bonds. Death Bonds.
By Marlene Y. SatterSeptember's financial news seemed more suitable for Halloween, with headlines about the "macabre" subject of "death bonds" cropping up everywhere from mainstream media to the...
November 01, 2009
Still TimeIn delivering a short history of the SRI movement, Steve Schueth, president of First Affirmative Financial Network in Colorado Springs, Colorado, explains that SRI originally...
November 01, 2009
Why Adopt Global Standards, Anyway?Over the last decade, the world's accounting standard-setters have been working on "converging" local and global accounting standards. Central to these efforts has been the...
November 01, 2009
Danger & Opportunity: Crafting a Better Target Date FundStriving to help investors pull in higher retirement incomes, Putnam Investments has revamped its existing line of target date funds by integrating target absolute return...
November 01, 2009
The Green Advisor: SRI & Green Investing Grow Up"Socially Responsible Investing (SRI) has for decades remained on the fringe of strategic money management, routinely battling the perception that prioritizing an ethical or social...
November 01, 2009
Small WorldOver the last several years, the world's capital markets have undergone tremendous expansion, diversification, and integration. Accompanying these changes has been a movement away from...
October 29, 2009
FINRA's Ketchum Speaks of Fiduciary DutyAt SIFMA gathering, debate about restoring investors' confidence in financial services industry.