Cash now makes up an average 5.3 percent of portfolios, the most since January 2009, according to the closely watched Bank of America Merrill Lynch Survey of Fund Managers for June. Curiously, investors on some levels are more suspect not of prospects in Europe but in the U.S., where expectations for growth fell 25 percent,…
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Facebook IPO a ‘missed opportunity’ – MarketWatch
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Facebook IPO a 'missed opportunity'MarketWatchTime was small investors couldn't get enough shares of a hot IPO. Now with Facebook, there are so many nobody knows where they might end up, including in our portfolios. See full story. When it …
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Inadequate Loan Loss Reserves: You Read It Here First
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Inadequate Loan Loss Reserves: You Read It Here First
June 30th, 2011
By David Goldman
“Bad Mortgages Weigh on Banks” is the headline of Nick Timiraos’ WSJ report that nearly 20% of US banks’ mortgage holdings are delinquent.
U.S. banks hol…
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Professionals shifting to ETFs from mutual funds.
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June 6, 2011, 6:00 PM
Professionals shifting to ETFs from mutual funds.
Exchange traded funds (ETFs) have made a big impact on the investment arena in the past few years, pulling assets from mutual funds and other investment vehicles too. Regular i…
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Measuring the Performance of the Ivy Portfolio
by dshort.com - Financial Life Cycle Planning • • 0 Comments
April 30, 2011
I’ve been posting a monthly moving average update for the five ETFs in featured in Mebane Faber and Eric Richardson’s Ivy Portfolio since the spring of 2009, when I featured my review of the book.
In addition to the monthly updates…
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Hedge fund FrontPoint hit by $3 billion in redemptions
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Hedge fund FrontPoint hit by $3 billion in redemptions
On Friday November 26, 2010, 3:22 pm EST
By Svea Herbst-Bayliss
BOSTON (Reuters) – FrontPoint Partners, a …
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Tax Collapse Continues- More Borrowing Ahead Professional Edition
by Lee Adler • • 0 Comments
In Monday’s news, the Treasury announced that it would sell a 303 day CMB this week, bringing new paper to be added this week from an expected zero, up to $23 billion. The bond market rolled merrily along anyway, as it got some help from selling in stocks. The Fed was quiet today. Fannie and…
