Wed, Mar 30, 2011
Here is the first of three excerpts from "Guaranteed to Fail: Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac and the Debacle of Mortgage Finance," the compact, illuminating new book by four NYU Stern School of Business professors about the fatally flawed structure of the GSEs.
Wed, Mar 23, 2011
Few organizations seem to understand the ascendancy of "open architecture" better than the Retirement Income Industry Association, whose mantra is "the view across the silos." Here's a report on its Spring Conference, held this week.
Tue, Mar 15, 2011
Using "non-Gaussian" analysis, Jim Otar has created a benchmark for evaluating retirement savings vehicles--and discovered that cautious savers might want to hold fewer equities.
Wed, Mar 09, 2011
Speaking at the 2011 Morningstar/Ibbotson Conference in Orlando, Roger Ibbotson (above) described low-liquidity as a largely unrecognized source of alpha in stocks and mutual funds.
Steve Utkus of the Vanguard Retirement Research Center proposes a four-part model to explain the psychological dynamics behind the most recent financial bubble, and similar bubbles.
Those with surplus money naturally lend to those who need money. But, as two IMF experts show, disaster can occur when too much money is lent for consumption and the process goes on too long.
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
The results of Morningstar's 2011 Mutual Fund Stewardship Grade Research Study are in.
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
Last August, falling interest rates drove up the projected benefit obligation and resulted in a record deficit for the 11-year history of the Milliman Pension Funding Study.
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
The Retirement Industry Conference is coming up soon, to be followed by several other events that RIJ readers might want to attend.
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
The Vanguard Emerging Markets Select Stock Fund is expected to have an expense ratio of 0.95%, a $3,000 minimum and a 2% redemption fee on shares held less than 60 days.
Wed, Mar 30, 2011
Britain's plan to simplify the state pension to a single-tier plan could hurt private DB plans by ending "contracting-out," the practice of substituting contributions to a private plan for contributions to the second state plan.
Tue, Mar 29, 2011
Brief or late-breaking items from Janus, ING, AXA Equitable Life, Morningstar, eRollover, Curian Capital and TrimTabs.
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