The first half of 2014 ended on a high note for most investors with stocks, bonds and commodities all posting relatively strong returns over the first two quarters of this year. Investors seeking inco...
Many of today’s most respected institutional investors pay close attention to a long-standing theoretical construct referred to as ‘Modern Portfolio Theory’ and for good reason. Modern Portfolio (MPT)...
Already, 2014 is shaping up to be an exceedingly robust year for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity. Announced deals so far this year total $1.6 trillion globally, up a whopping 79 percent from las...
By Bryan Dooley
Over the past year or so, emerging market equities have been an investment pariah, regularly slammed on concerns of political upheaval, falling growth rates and financial imbalances. H...
The rapid ageing of the world’s most advanced economies makes for both economic challenges and potential investment opportunities. According to a recent study by the United Nations, the ageing demogra...
Janet Yellen has been confirmed as the next US Federal Reserve Bank chairman to succeed Ben Bernanke and so far the financial markets like the decision. Both fixed income and equity markets rose immed...
Now that the dust has begun to settle from Washington’s debt ceiling drama which included a 16-day government shutdown, investors are left focusing on the damage done and what’s ahead for the world’s ...
The global financial system clearly looks better than it did just a few years ago when the world’s largest banks and many governments found themselves in deep trouble in the midst of the worst recessi...
During various periods of time throughout history, financial markets have often been driven by one major swing factor which can usually be boiled down to a particular word or phrase. Over the past few...
Noticeably absent from this year’s soaring stock market have been emerging market equities and those companies which deal in commodities. Stoked by unprecedented money-printing and massive global “rin...
