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Asset managers afraid to leave the safety of the herd are missing out on crucial opportunities for growth in international and emerging markets.
February 4 -
A wide range of small businesses in the U.S. are beginning to take advantage of weak U.S. dollars exchange rate to market their products to Europe and Latin America. We are hearing about the credit crisis every day, but we are not hearing enough about how the weak dollar is a good thing for business, Raphael Amit, a professor of entrepreneurship at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, told The New York Times. It is one of the things that will help prevent a recession. When the dollar is weak, imports are more expensive. So relatively speaking, domestic production and services are more competitive. Simple as that.
February 1 -
Bonds are beginning to replace equities in pension funds in the United Kingdom, according to The Financial Times.
February 1 -
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Wisdom Tree Investments of New York is set to become the first asset management firm to launch an exchange-traded fund that invests exclusively in the emerging market country of India, with the planned launch of the Wisdom Tree India Earnings Fund ETF by the end of February.
January 28 -
NEW YORK-The marketplace for sub-advised and multi-managed funds is projected to continue growing as financial products become more complicated and fund shops look to outsource specialized work.
January 28 -
Last week's extreme volatility in the U.S. and international stock markets has many retirees and Baby Boomers approaching retirement worried that their life savings will fall short of expectations.
January 28 -
Way to go. Some marketing experts are beginning to get it right. The "Magical Mystery Tour" that's been the past 60 years of Baby Boomer buying power doesn't have to end with mutual fund companies instilling the dreaded fear of outliving one's retirement savings, dying impoverished and, possibly, alone.
January 28 -
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UBS Global Asset Management and Genworth Financial plan to introduce a guaranteed income for life option for 401(k) participants.
January 28