Bob Doll has joined Nuveen Asset Management as chief equity strategist and senior portfolio manager in a surprise move following his retirement from BlackRock in the summer.
Fidelity Worldwide Investment has launched a low-cost US tracker fund as it moves to mimic the success of its UK tracker fund among direct investors.
Research shows us that over the long term, dividend paying stocks tend to outperform non-dividend payers and do so with less risk. Over the last 30 years, the index of equal-weighted, dividend paying S&P companies returned +8.7% annualised versus +1.5%...
Ex-UBS manager Lawrence Kemp has resurfaced at BlackRock's New York office, where he has been appointed as managing director and head of the firm's fundamental large-cap growth team.
Wall Street opened higher today as optimism from early-stage talks in Congress about tackling the US fiscal cliff spread to markets worldwide.
Global markets rallied today after fiscal cliff talks between President Barack Obama and Congressional leaders stepped up a notch over the weekend.
It has been a hectic year for investors, with the eurozone debacle driving core bond yields to record lows, while equity markets were buffeted by fears over China and the US.