Portfolio

Stocks had a strong showing this week and gained 541.37 points, or 4.88%. Blue chips gained 166.36 points on Friday.

Wall Street high rollers are expecting big bonuses at year-end—especially hedge fund managers and executives at boutique banks.

As banks and insurers compete in the lucrative retirement market, new numbers show a marked uptick in the sale of annuities at bank holding companies in the first half of 2011.

In the three years since the financial crisis hit, investors have remained cautious, but their tolerance for risk has actually held steady, according to the Investment Company Institute.

A bond attorney urged colleagues to do more for “market betterment” by supporting legislative efforts to give the SEC authority to develop “a uniform baseline disclosure rule.”

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 40.72 points, but recovered some of the day’s losses. The Dow Jones Total Stock Market Index shed 28.61 points.

In the three years since the financial crisis hit, investors have remained cautious, but their tolerance for risk has actually held steady, the Investment Company Institute said Thursday.

Investment consultants and plan sponsors continued to express the strongest interest in the geographies of ACWI ex-U.S., global and emerging markets in September, according to a prominent institutional investment database.

The Conference Board Employment Treads Index fell 0.45 percentage points to 100.95 in September, pointing to continued slow job growth for the rest of the year. However, the figure is up 4.4 percentage points from September 2010.

Man Investments has launched the Man Long Short Fund, a ’40 Act equity hedge fund-of-fund that will invest in up to 30 portfolios and offer monthly liquidity. With a minimum investment of $50,000, the fund will only be available to high-net-worth clients of top-tier broker-dealers.