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Fixed-income investors face a difficult dilemma these days. By definition, they seek yield to meet their investment goals, but many financial market observers are predicting trouble in one popular source of such yield – the high-yield bond market. There’s real cause for concern. The junk bond market has seized up several times in the past few years, undergoing sharp, sudden swings due to periodic lacks of liquidity. As the Federal Reserve’s long-anticipated December rate hike began to...

Need a loan? You can always go to a bank. Or you can try to borrow from your peers. Increasingly popular “peer-to-peer lending portals” allow borrowers and lenders to connect directly through online marketplaces, threatening to disintermediate traditional financial institutions in the process. But how do peer-to-peer sites assess the risk involved in the loans they make? What role will regulation play in their future? Will institutional investors get on board? Industry experts discussed these...

Enough talk already. The moment is finally here: The Federal Reserve raised interest rates today by 0.25 percent for the first time since June 2006. Credit Suisse doesn’t believe the small, well-anticipated hike will hurt the U.S. economy in and of itself. (What happens in rate-sensitive markets, especially high-yield bonds, is another story, and one that The Financialist will cover in the coming days.) More important to financial markets are the signals Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen...

It’s no secret that one of the best ways to be successful when investing in capital markets is to buy when everyone else is selling. But that doesn’t make it any easier, especially when market turbulence is coming from several sources at once. Already on edge as a result of China’s surprise devaluation in August and a potential rate hike by the Federal Reserve, investors have had to figure out how to navigate financial markets amid high levels of both volatility and uncertainty. Watch an...

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The November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris claimed 129 lives and are changing the political climate in France and Europe. One thing they haven’t done, however, is roil financial markets. Both the Stoxx 50, Europe’s blue-chip index, and France’s benchmark CAC 40 index were up 2.1 percent in the first three days of trading after the attacks.   Certain sectors – airlines, hotels, luxury goods, and financial stocks – took a hit on the Monday after the attacks. Even within these sectors,...

Vontobel mit Neugeldzufluss 28.10.2015 - Vontobel realisierte in den ersten neun Monaten 2015 einen Mittelzufluss von CHF 7,3 Mrd. Im dritten Quartal zogen Wealth und Asset Management CHF 0,9 Mrd. Neugelder an.  Mehr... ETFs auf Basis von Tweets 23.10.2015 - Market Prophit, ein Unternehmen das sich auf Finanzdaten spezialisiert hat, lancierte im letzten Frühling ETFs, die auf Finanz-Tweets basieren.  Mehr...

It’s not that the sharing economy itself is a new idea. Monasteries loaned books to the public in the Middle Ages, farmers have shared tools and labor for centuries, and the first known car rental service popped up in 1904. What is new is how quickly an extremely varied set of companies built around sharing, renting, collaborating, and accessing items on-demand are growing, thanks in large part to the proliferation of smartphones. There are 44 privately held sharing-oriented businesses that...

Laut der jährlichen Umfrage von P&I/Towers Watson verwalteten die 500 grössten Asset Manager der Welt Ende 2014 zusammen 78,1 Billionen Dollar. Gegenüber 2013 bedeuten die 78,1 Billionen US-Dollar ein Wachstum von 2,1%. Die Nummer eins unter den Asset Manager bleibt wie im Vorjahr BlackRock mit einem AuM von 4,7 Billionen Dollar. Auf den weiteren Podestplätzen folgen die beiden amerikanischen Institute Vanguard Group (3,1 Bio. $) und die State Street Global (2,4 Bio. $), welche...

Real GDP growth in the U.S. wasn’t particularly impressive in the third quarter –the 1.5 percent annualized increase came in just shy of the 1.6 percent consensus forecast and way down from the 3.9 percent reading in the second quarter. A look at the components of GDP growth, however, reveals a very positive signal for the future: Consumer spending has been the biggest contributor to GDP in recent quarters, and American consumers are spending enough to make up for stagnating exports and...