Peng Chen, CEO Asia (ex-Japan) at Dimensional Fund Advisors, a firm noted for its collaboration with Nobel laureates and top financial economists, discusses the latest development in investment portfolio management that deals with the key challenges that are once again highlighted by the global financial crisis. Read more
Leave a CommentOctober 2012
The Halloween indicator, popularized by the well-worn adage, “Sell in May and go away,” holds that stocks offer their best returns during the November through April period. Recent research seems to confirm earlier studies, which have found that this stock market anomaly dating back at least to the 1930s has not been arbitraged away, and in fact, is stronger than ever. Read more
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At the recent Fixed-Income Management Conference 2012, BlackRock’s Matthew Tucker, CFA, managing director and head of the firm’s iShares Fixed Income Strategy team, delivered a valuable primer on fixed-income exchange-traded funds (ETFs). Read more
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Lauren Foster her shares top picks for the most interesting recent articles, radio shows, and video clips. Read more
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Jan Straatman, global CIO of Lombard Odier, believes that risk management at the portfolio level has been negligent, and a different approach with a new sense of urgency is needed to build more effective solutions. Read more
Leave a CommentWhereas global equity market returns have been driven largely by central bankers and geopolitics since the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, respondents to this week’s poll expect monetary policy and geopolitics to have a diminished influence on stock prices in the next 12 months. Read more
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