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A New Year’s Resolution: I Will Protect My Portfolio from Rising Rates
As with personal resolutions and renewed avowals, the start of a new year is the perfect time for insurers to revisit the parameters and goals guiding their investment portfolios. Particularly for ...
Stubbornly Low Inflation Holds Key to 2014 Fed Policy
Stubbornly weak inflation is shaping up as the wild card for U.S. monetary policy makers this year, with top Federal Reserve officials stumped by why it has lingered so low for so long and at odds as ...
Insurers Shift Bets With Uncertainty Over Fed Tapering: BlackRock
BlackRock Inc., the world's largest asset manager, said uncertainty about when the Federal Reserve will begin to slow its monthly bond purchases undermined insurers' confidence about investing in ...
Cat Bonds Rally With Hurricane Season Advancing
Gains on catastrophe bonds are poised to exceed returns on speculative-grade company debt by the most since 2008 as the Atlantic hurricane season heads into its fourth month. Notes designed to ...