Michael Hasenstab is senior vice president, portfolio manager and co-director of global fixed income at the Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group.
The call for the week: I continue to attempt to “keep” the profits accrued since the March 2009 bottom.
Harry Rady, chief executive and portfolio manager at Rady Asset Management LLC, shared some insights on how the stock market is uniquely poised to present both short and long investment opportunities in what he calls a “tale of two markets.'
Last week's market sell-off has investment strategists and financial advisers hunkering down in anticipation of continued market volatility, but they aren't ready to say that it marks the beginning of a double-dip recession.
Apollo Global Management LLC founder Leon Black and others are touting private equity's consistent outsized returns, but some insiders — including investors — aren't so sure.
Legg Mason Capital Management's CIO tells Consuelo Mack why he thinks large-cap stocks will out-perform small- and mid-caps over the next several years.
Waddell & Reed Financial Inc., the mutual-fund manager started in 1937, said it didn't intend to disrupt markets on May 6 when the plunge in stocks temporarily erased more than $1 trillion of value.
While investors generally embrace the concept of buy-and-hold investing, they fear missing out on gains that come with other strategies.
The other day I said I had mapped out a trade if the market dropped to a certain level and this happened yesterday
TIAA-CREF aims to add to its $2 billion holdings of farmland to help diversify its portfolio and hedge against inflation, said the pension-fund manager's director for private-equity investments in agriculture.
Whenever the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System decides to start raising interest rates, investors should look to the technology and health care sectors as the biggest likely beneficiaries, according to new research from Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC.
With interest rates at historic lows and no place to go but up, it behooves investors to have a strategy in place ahead of a rate hike cycle that is likely to begin this year.
To tap into the potential of some of the world's fastest-growing economies, investors need to look beyond the broad emerging-markets categories and start paying attention to the specific sectors and industries that actually drive performance.
The current environment is most definitely a stock-picker's market, says the firm's managing director. His advice? Focus more on company fundamentals than sectors or the economy
The growth of mobile Internet usage via smart phones and tablet computers is poised to drive the next major technology cycle, according to Keith Goddard, president and chief investment officer of Capital Advisors Inc.
Standard & Poor's said Wednesday it is changing the makeup of its indices after a number of acquisitions.
Pacific Investment Management Co. LLC is planning to build active-equity-management capability, possibly by lifting an existing team from a rival firm, according to sources familiar with the company.
Listen to Kevin Mahn, chief investment officer with Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc., offer predictions for stock market returns in this one-on-one podcast interview with InvestmentNews senior editor Jeff Benjamin.
Catching a ride on the next leg of this historic 10-month stock market rally will mean following the smart money, mostly represented by institutional-class investors, toward a new concentration on quality and calculated risk.
