Investment Officers
Are Companies Led By Women Better? Now You Can Put Your Money On It
Investors who want to put money behind the idea that female leadership helps companies excel will have a new way to invest on Thursday when Barclays Bank PLC launches the Barclays Women in Leadership ...
Short Memories: Yield Hunt Sees Investors Chasing Bond In Risky Regions
The hunt for yield in an era of diminishing interest rates has lured investors into ever riskier regions of the bond market, prompting some to ask: who is buying this stuff and are they suffering ...
S&P: Insurers Ideal to Fill Infrastructure Spending Gap
With an expected $500 billion per year gap in infrastructure funding through 2030, insurers are well situated to fill that financing void, Standard & Poor's asserted in a July 7 note. The ratings ...
Pension Funds Tread into Danger Zone with Risk Taking: Economist
Pension funds and other long-term investors are taking ever bigger risks and could be laying the ground for renewed turmoil when money gets more expensive, one of the world's leading economists told ...
American Family, Microsoft Team Up on Startup Accelerator; Ventures to Create Smarter Homes
On Tuesday, Microsoft Corp. and American Family Insurance announced they are launching a unique business accelerator for startups focused on home automation. The accelerator will help the next ...
Low Global Yields, Short Memories Propel Debt Revival for Frontier Economies
Investors are returning to the riskier, less developed bond markets of Africa and other frontier economies, burying memories of past setbacks and plunging in after global yields failed to rise as ...
Insider Options Trades Seen in 25% of U.S. M&A Deals: Research
About a quarter of U.S. merger and acquisition deals have insider-related options trading activity before official announcements, but only a fraction are being investigated by regulators, according ...
University Analyzes the Big Data of Yahoo! Message Boards
A study by researchers at the University of Iowa suggests Yahoo's finance message boards have a small degree of ability to predict stock price movements. The study, "Stock Chatter: Using stock ...