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60% Chance of Recession: Pimco

Wed, 12 Jun 2013 03:18:28 +0000

High debt levels have raised the chances of a global recession in the next three to five years to more than 60 percent, said Pimco, which manages the world's largest bond fund.

'Dirty Dozen': 12 Worst Mutual Funds

Fri, 17 May 2013 15:35:47 +0000

High fees plus poor performance: The formula is pretty easy to determine what makes a bad mutual fund. Some, though, are worse than others.

Pimco's Gross Turns Bullish on US Treasurys

Wed, 10 Apr 2013 10:01:07 +0000

The world's biggest bond fund manager Bill Gross has had a change of heart on Treasurys, raising allocations to U.S.government bonds, as the fund seeks to pre-empt an increase in buying from Japanese investors....

Why Goldman Thinks You Should Dump Bonds Now

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:41:51 +0000

Goldman Sachs strategists have issued a big warning to clients hiding out in bond funds: You're about to lose your shirt. The reason: interest rates began rising this week, and if they return to the historical ...

Buyer Beware: Will Your Bond Fund Sting You?

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:55:02 +0000

If you own a bond fund, dividend paying stock or ETF - and that seems to be everybody these days, especially those of us who are yield-hungry and aging - just remember: When rates go up, yields go down....

Managed Portfolios and Your 401(k)

Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:19:18 +0000

How important is choice in your 401(k) options? Do you want to have a set of 10 or 20 mutual funds and investments from which you get to choose your retirement portfolio allocation? There's a concept gaining ...

ETF Premiums: No Worry—Until They Bite

Wed, 14 Nov 2012 16:52:26 +0000

Big flows recently out of junk bond funds like HYG point to lessons on how not to trade ETFs.Headlines today focused on big outflows from the iShares iBoxx High Yield Bond ETF .

More Mutual Funds are Using ETFs

Tue, 30 Oct 2012 17:37:53 +0000

There is an emerging and overlooked user group of ETFs: mutual funds.ETFs have been seeing money move in the door while investors flee U.S. stock mutual funds. Also driving the inflows are mutual fund ...

How to evaluate target-date mutual funds

Mon, 22 Oct 2012 07:00:50 +0000

Target-date mutual funds sound like no-brainer investments.They have set target dates, usually matched to an investor's target retirement year. As the target date nears, say 2020, investment allocations ...

Fund Managers Struggle as Investors Turn Passive

Mon, 08 Oct 2012 06:32:55 +0000

Fund managers used to be able to charge high fees even if their mutual funds underperformed markets, but now they need to find new ways to win back investors who have piled out of traditional actively-managed ...

Pimco's Gross on 'Where Bad Bonds Go to Die'

Tue, 18 Sep 2012 10:36:31 +0000

Bill Gross, the co-Chief Investment Officer of Pimco, and manager of the world's largest bond funds, has weighed in on recent central bank action with a scathing tweet.

Your Bank Accounts: Are They Really Insured?

Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:23:37 +0000

Walk into your bank's neighborhood branch or visit its website and you're offered a choice of the usual checking and savings accounts, along with slightly more sophisticated products - mutual funds, annuities, ...

Bill Gross: Investors Should Look at Mexico, Brazil

Thu, 28 Jun 2012 19:54:53 +0000

Bill Gross, the world's biggest bond fund manager at PIMCO, said the U.S. is the least bad choice in a poor global investment environment, but this could change if Washington doesn't get control of the ...

How To Pick A Good Mutual Fund

Fri, 22 Jun 2012 15:59:38 +0000

Learn how to evaluate mutual funds and find the right one for you.

Facebook in your mutual fund? It could be soon

Fri, 11 May 2012 18:09:10 +0000

Ask people what they think about Facebook, and you're likely to hear everything from "It's a terrific way to connect with friends and family," to "It's a colossal drain on time and productivity."Soon, ...

Is It Time to Sell Your Stocks and Run For Cover?

Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:14:32 +0000

When it comes to investing, it's hard to know who to follow these days. Since September 2009, the Vanguard Total Stock Market index fund (VTSMX) is up 33.4 percent. The Dow is approaching 12,900, reaching ...

Bill Miller And Active ETFs

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:41:06 +0000

Does the departure of a famous manager tell us anything about the outlook for active ETFs?Bill Miller’s value-oriented mutual fund had a great run, besting the S'P 500 for 15 straight years b...

iShares Plans Broad Commodity Offerings

Fri, 18 Nov 2011 19:18:16 +0000

iShares continues push into more focused strategies, filing to market five broad commodity-focused equity funds.

Top 5 Energy Mutual Funds

Mon, 31 Oct 2011 14:49:17 +0000

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Top 5 Technology Mutual Funds

Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:01:33 +0000

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Top 5 Aggressive Growth Mutual Funds

Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:44:40 +0000

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