Credit Problems Continue to Crop Up

While the Federal Reserve and other global central banks endeavor to use their Rube Goldbergian powers to engineer a decline in Libor and other key ... cents on the dollar Wednesday, according to Derrick Wulf, portfolio manager at Dwight Asset Management, down from about 80 cents on the dollar early in November. “The CMBX market represents, to many [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 17:10:34

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Barron’s article on gold

I like the contrarian approach of Barron’s and this is a nice article for gold bugs who are feeling long on self-pity and short on their ... in gold and the bear market in paper,” John Hathaway, portfolio manager of Tocqueville Asset Management, wrote recently. “It is more likely that this massive shakeout has set the stage for a dynamic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-01 08:52:38

Financial Goals for 2008: Reviewing Our Progress

A year ago I wrote up a list of financial goals for 2008. Today, I thought I’d take a look back at them and see how we did ... describing the changes that we made: Reconsidering Our Asset Allocation How to Manage Your Asset Allocation With Multiple Accounts Our Investment Portfolio: Asset Allocation and Location Market Turmoil [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 22:28:10

Personal Finance Site Mint Opens to The Public With New Features

It seems that pretty much everyone who deals with personal finance has decided that this is the day for announcements. They’re right ... featured 401(k) management center, portfolio asset allocation info, and comparison of your investments ... ; from tracking your daily expenses to evaluating your stock portfolio. Of course, it still cannot match [more...]

Date: 2008-10-14 10:30:23

Why Stock Markets Are So Volatile? The Tale of 4 Masters

2008 as surely been one of the toughest years on the investors’ patience ... of their original trading strategy. Managed Portfolio – Master of asset allocation It’s been a few years ... and respect the original asset allocation. For example, if you have a balanced portfolio (50 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 10:00:41

UTI woos overseas Indians with new gold, equity-based fund

Even as the world grapples with a financial crisis, ... asset classes that they can add to their portfolios," Harsha Upadhyay, fund manager and vice-president of UTI Asset Management Co, said in the statement. "If one of your primary objectives is to earn [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 11:38:09

Mint SMS: Monitor Your Finances On the Go

Personal finance service Mint has added a new feature for those who simply have to know what their entire net worth is in every imaginable situation ... recently added to Mint include a 401(k) management center, portfolio asset allocation info ... (696468) and they’ll receive info for savings, credit, and loans they’re tracking on Mint. The folks [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 14:00:32

FT 4th January 2009 -Building wealth with tens of thousands of small accounts

The article below provides another practical example of microfinance, ending with the following paragraph: ... was as a gofer at Raffeisen Capital Management in Vienna. Although he was not a trainee portfolio manager, he asked the right questions. Twenty-three years later Seiler Asset Management looks after [more...]

Date: 2009-01-05 03:53:40

Tax Management, One Dollar Home, DIY Haircut @ The Carnivals

The last couple of days have been nuts for us harried investors ... , maybe doing some portfolio adjustments like adding some new asset classes to our portfolio, and even ... A Company Can Make More Money Through Tax Management @ The Financial Blogger Credit Cards Are Excellent [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 16:48:22

TRX Inc. (TRXI): Traveling Towards Profits in Your Portfolio?

TRX develops and hosts software applications to automate manual processes and track transaction data in the travel industry ... Asset Management and Horrell Capital Management. TRX had 2007 sales of $101 million and has cash ... exchanges, refunds, waivers and split payments, commission management, fare loading, document [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 13:04:21

BlueBay to close EM fund

BlueBay Asset Management is to shut a $1.2bn hedge fund after it lost a third of its value in three weeks and its portfolio manager resigned after valuation guidelines were breached, the UK-based [more...]

Date: 2008-11-28 05:45:23

SAC Capital (Steven Cohen): Hedge Fund Portfolio Tracking - 13F Filing Q3 2008

This is the 3rd Quarter 2008 edition of our ongoing hedge fund portfolio tracking series ... , “SAC is a multi-strategy, private asset management firm founded by Steven A. Cohen in 1992 ... , Global Quantitative Strategies, Fixed Income and Credit, Global Macro Strategies, Convertible Bonds [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:07:32

Will Merrill's "Kitchen Sink" Writedown (MER) Set Bottom For Financials?

After Merrill Lynch (MER) announced it would sell its ABS CDO portfolio for a $4.4 billion loss at $0 ... before it can begin to recover from record low valuations? Atlantis Asset Management analyst Michael Cohn ... be the "watershed" writedown that could set the bottom for financials. At the very least, it gives the market [more...]

Date: 2008-07-29 18:13:00

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