Investment Officers
Analysis: Optimism Fading, Brazil Protests Put Leaders On Alert
When more than 200,000 protesters took to the streets across Brazil on Monday night, they demanded a dizzying array of improvements—from halting the fast rise of prices to cleaning up government ...
Unrest In Turkey Highlights Terror Coverage Gaps, Willis Exec Says
With acts of terrorism defined in different ways under standalone terrorism insurance policies, insureds could find themselves without coverage in situations more akin to political violence than ...
Bernanke Says Fed Likely To Reduce Stimulus This Year
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said on Wednesday the U.S. economy is expanding strongly enough for the central bank to begin slowing the pace of its bond-buying stimulus later this year. ...Detroit Default, Restructuring Plan Break New Ground: Moody’s
Detroit's default and debt restructuring plan are precedent-setting in the U.S. municipal market, Moody's Investors Service said on Monday, because the city is looking to bondholders, as well as ...
Obama Says Bernanke ‘Stayed A Lot Longer’ Than He Wanted To At Fed
President Barack Obama hinted in an interview aired on Monday that he may be looking for a new chief of the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, saying current Chairman Ben Bernanke has stayed a lot longer ...
Analysis: Why Bankrupt W.R. Grace Is Thriving
A company stuck in bankruptcy for 12 years may not seem like much of a catch, but investors have fallen in love with U.S. specialty chemical manufacturer W.R. Grace & Co and its surging sales to ...
Accounting Transparency Linked To Cost of Capital, Valuation: Study
A new study by an accounting professor of University Of California Berkeley's Haas School Of Business finds greater transparency in firms' earnings has a positive effect on the bottom line. "Cost of ...
‘Great Rotation’ From Bonds Into Equities May Have Begun
Just as a month-long stock market rout seems to have further trashed the concept of a "Great Rotation" from bonds into equities, evidence is emerging that institutional investors may have already ...