Friday 23 February 2018

BlackRock puts gunmakers on notice after Florida school shooting

BlackRock puts gunmakers on notice after Florida school shooting

BOSTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The world's largest asset manager put U.S. gunmakers on notice on Thursday that it is no longer business as usual in the wake of a shooting that killed 17 at a Florida high school.

U.S. fund investors creep back in to market: Lipper

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. fund investors inched back in to the markets during the most recent week, putting $2.5 billion into bonds and $1.1 billion into stocks, Lipper data showed on Thursday.

For some, traumatic life jolts lead to profound, personal growth

CHICAGO (Reuters) - (The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters.)

Five ways millennial caregivers can find help

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Amanda Singer had her plate full running a dance studio in Massachusetts.

Norway's sovereign wealth fund buys 245 million pounds stake in UK's Shaftesbury

((This Feb. 22 story corrects paragraph 4 to clarify NBIM's partnership with Crown Estate))

How matching money turbo-charges U.S. retirement savings

CHICAGO - After turning miserly when the Great Recession began nearly 10 years ago, U.S. employers are loosening their purse strings and giving workers more money to boost retirement savings.

Bridgewater's Dalio sees 70 percent chance of recession before 2020

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Ray Dalio, who founded world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, thinks there is a relatively high chance the U.S. economy will stumble into a recession before the next presidential election in 2020.

Exclusive: Investment star Alan Howard's comeback hits headwind

NEW YORK (Reuters) - A fund managed directly by Alan Howard, one of Britain's best known investors, lost nearly 9.0 percent net of fees from May through December 2017, according to information provided to Reuters by a spokesman for two New York City employee pension funds.

Guggenheim's Minerd warns of a possible replay of 1987 stock market crash

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investors should brace for a possible replay of the 1987 stock market crash later this year, given this month's slump came against the backdrop of Federal Reserve interest rate hikes and rising inflation, Scott Minerd, Global Chief Investment Officer at Guggenheim Partners, said on Tuesday.

U.S. market gurus who predicted selloff say current calm an illusion

Some veteran investors who were vindicated in calling for a pullback in shares and a spike in volatility could now be cheering. Actually, they're looking at the risks that still lie ahead in the current relative calm.

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