Global investing

Add war to inflation, the COVID-19 pandemic and other issues making 2022 a bumpy investment year.

Some funds touting their environmental and socially responsible investments may be exaggerating.

The bank's asset management arm will introduce products “where they exhibit efficiency advantages over index funds.”

A search for returns in less liquid assets may blur the transparency of real portfolio value.

Each of these funds has its own way of adding high-octane assets into clients' portfolios.

After a decade-long bull market in U.S. stocks, rebalancing into international equities may make sense for some clients.

Although the test is complicated and misunderstood, eliminating it could “do more harm than good,” according to an expert.

The company is considering buying bolt-on units to expand in private credit, real assets and non-U.S. businesses, said PGIM CEO David Hunt.

“Pretty much every central bank is now talking about global downside risks, and that’s helped bonds rally,” a portfolio manager says.

It’s often hard to know just what is driving investor decisions.

BlackRock will see the largest reduction to its workforce since 2016.

U.S. investors normally do a very superficial analysis when considering exposure to the country, an executive said.

Climate change could cause economic damage that threatens their holdings.

The Global Income Fund slashed its equities exposure by nearly a third in October and moved part of the proceeds into U.S. and European high-yield debt.

There’s now a way to measure whether these products do what they promise.