BlackRock's Investment Institute said on Tuesday it was "warming up" to European assets following what it called the eurozone's "impressive" efforts to tackle the coronavirus.
Employer retirement plans are not known for their flashy investments - a majority of 401(k) investors these days use target date funds that invest in broad, diversified equity and fixed income mutual funds that automatically rebalance to minimize risk as retirement approaches.
The COVID-19 pandemic has put a bright spotlight on weaknesses in many of the systems designed to protect Americans from risks. But with older people more susceptible to serious illness and death from the virus, the problems in our Medicare system that were evident pre-pandemic have come into especially sharp relief.
William Ackman's hedge fund is boasting double-digit gains at a time many portfolios have sunk along with the economy during the coronavirus pandemic, after the billionaire investor plowed cash into a number of companies he already owned and dumped Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway among other stocks.
Hedge fund Starboard Value LP is close to having eight directors elected to the board of GCP Applied Technologies Inc at the chemical company's annual meeting, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday.
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