Wealth Management Elite
Nov 01, 2007
Everybody says they offer wealth management these days. But do they? Not really, says research and consulting group CEG Worldwide. Wealth managers use a truly consultative approach, and a lot of advisors are actually what CEG likes to call...
Meet the Retirement Geek
Nov 01, 2007
Moshe Milevsky, professor of Finance at York University Canada, is a widely recognized innovator in the field of retirement-income planning, insurance and pensions. Milevsky has been instrumental in developing the personal longevity insurance...
Giving Away An IRA
Nov 01, 2007
Tis the season for giving and receiving, as well as for high-pressure television ads that force you to search frantically for the button on the remote control. But sometimes, paying attention to those special offers available for a limited time...
Capital Crunch Squeezes TIC Industry
Oct 19, 2007
Many users of the popular tenant-in-common (TIC) investment vehicle in commercial real estate are hoping they have the stamina to withstand a double blow
Steady Growth
Oct 01, 2007
For years, investors have been waiting for a revival of growth funds. The moment may have arrived. During the first seven months of 2007, large-cap growth funds outdid large-cap value by more than 3 percentage points. But growth funds can be...
A House of Pain
Oct 01, 2007
The curious thing about a bubble is, when it bursts, you can't believe people actually behaved the way they did. (Remember, in the late 1990s, backing up the truck and buying the QQQQ for clients? Nah, not you.) Consider what a sweet temptation...
Meet The New Panic, Just Like the Old Panic
Oct 01, 2007
About the current credit market turmoil, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in early September, The behavior in what we are observing in the last seven weeks is identical in many respects to what we saw in 1998, what we saw in the...
120/20 Shorting To Go Extra Long
Oct 01, 2007
Over the past five years, institutional investors have taken quite a shine to a type of fund that nobody quite knows what to call. At last count, pensions and endowments had committed some $30 billion to these so-called short extension, or...
Time To Bottom Fish For Small Banks?
Oct 01, 2007
Financial stocks have understandably led the market down during the recent credit-related correction. But the group has also recently led in another area: insider buying. In July and August, executives and directors in this much-beleaguered sector...
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