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What top-performing investment strategists and portfolio managers are thinking about the latest market trends and how to build high-performing portfolios.
November 15, 2007
Getting Out of the MudI remember early on in this endeavor saying, "It's not the company with the best business plan that succeeds, but the company which executes their...
November 01, 2007
Intoducing the ELEMENTSFour of the world's leading financial organizations have teamed up to launch a new series of exchange-traded notes (ETNs) called ELEMENTS. The first product is linked...
November 01, 2007
How to Shrink StressWhen stress impinges on your worklife--whether it emanates from work or from home--it can force you into your less functional, primitive survival mode. To return...
November 01, 2007
Taking Back Money ManagementAs early as the mid-1980s, someone with an eye on the securities industry could forecast the end of the "customer's man," otherwise known as the...
October 26, 2007
SRI Doesn't Have to Mean Subpar Performancenew report released by the United Nations Environment Programme and a group of leading asset managers from around the world draw upon dozens of studies to demonstrate that investors acting responsibly do not have to sacrifice investment performance as a result.
October 12, 2007
Studies Examine Community Bank Investment SalesSmall banks reported strong brokerage results in August.The Kehrer-LIMRA Index of Community Bank Brokerage Revenue climbed to 150 in August, up from 114 in August ...
October 01, 2007
Vanguard Eyes Long/Short FundThe Vanguard Group says it has been in talks with Charles Schwab Investment Management about the re-organization of the Laudus Rosenberg U.S. Large/Mid Capitalization Long/Short...
October 01, 2007
Principal ProtectorQuick, now, what's the fastest growing investment class in the United States? Precisely right: structured products. Go ahead, fall in love with them -- but don't...
October 01, 2007
Singles and Special-Needs ClientsMicki Pitch runs a two-generation practice in Cedar Knolls, New Jersey, with her eldest son, Joe. They specialize in serving the investment and retirement needs...
October 01, 2007
Rules of the CloseI'm going to close this series on the "Good" way to sell with, appropriately, a look at closing the sale. "Closing" is highly overrated in...