If you’re brave enough to time the small cap cycle back and forth, you can rack up some great returns. Just be ready for an alternating performance cycle.
Stable political and regulatory environments are key to successful infrastructure investing within emerging markets, says senior portfolio manager Nick Langley, senior portfolio manager and investment director with Renaissance Investments based in Sydney, Australia.
With managers everywhere chasing dividends, stocks that provide steady income will continue to trade at a premium, says David Graham, CIBC Asset Management, CIBC Monthly Income Fund.
As you might expect during a year following one financial crisis and during which another reared its head, 2011 saw more than its fair share of regulatory activity.
Talk to your advisor about how this strategy could work for you and your family.
Guaranteed Minimum Withdrawal Products entered Canada with a bang, twisted through a few snags related to underlying pricing assumptions and now are cruising along as accepted components of client portfolios for those close to retirement.
Economic indicators and predictions have a downside. The data lags. By the time economists make the call that a country has slipped into recession, the slowing job growth, lackluster consumer spending, slipping housing starts, and all the factors that go in to marking the GDP have been impacting your client’s lives for months.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is said to be close to a settlement with mortgage insurers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over allegations the two failed to properly disclose their exposure to low quality loans.
Is modern portfolio theory dead? Perhaps, perhaps not, but either way it might not be doing your clients much good.
If you look at the manufacturing numbers in the Atlantic states, the U.S. is likely already in a recession.