Recession
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Forecast optimistic for new yeartrueInstitutional investment strategists generally paint an upbeat outlook for 2013, including the S&P 500 and emerging markets, while seeing little chance of recession in a weak but slowly strengthening economy.
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Survey: Managers more confident in recovery despite approaching cliff
trueMoney managers surveyed this month by Bank of America Merrill Lynch are increasingly confident in a global economic recovery despite the still unresolved U.S. fiscal cliff.
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AllianceBernstein liquidates Public-Private Investment Program fund for Treasury
trueAllianceBernstein on Tuesday liquidated its Legacy Securities Fund, part of the U.S. Treasury's Public-Private Investment Program.
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Investors blind to danger of fiscal cliff, says BlackRocktrueIf Washington powerbrokers don't address the so-called fiscal cliff, the economy could be driven back into a recession, according to analysts at BlackRock.
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Institutional investors see big tail-risk event ahead
trueAbout three-quarters of executives from a mixed universe of institutional investors think a significant tail-risk event is likely to very likely within the next 12 months.
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Poverty rates rising for older Americans without DB plans, NIRS finds
trueRates of poverty among older Americans without defined benefit pensions were nine times greater in 2010 than for those with the pension plans, up from six times greater in 2006, according to a new report from the National Institute on Retirement Security.
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Money managers cautious on U.S. outlook, survey findstrueInstitutional money managers are less confident in their outlook for the U.S. economy, although they do not expect a recession and they see some positive factors, according to Northern Trust.
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Kashkari, Doll differ on prospects for QE3
truePacific Investment Management Co.’s Neel Kashkari said the Federal Reserve is likely to start a third round of quantitative easing, but BlackRock’s Robert Doll said the central bank will wait to see whether the economy weakens more.
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Preparing for increased volatilitytrueFinancial asset prices are a reflection of the current environment as well as future expectations, but often, rising or falling prices feed back into the shaping of expectations themselves.
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Barton Biggs trims stock in anticipation of S&P 500 drop
trueThe Standard & Poor's 500 Index may fall as much as 7% because of economic weakness in Europe, according to hedge fund manager Barton Biggs.
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BlackRock's Doll: 2012 economy to rise or fall on Europe, U.S. quick fixestrueThe European debt crisis will begin to ease while the U.S. economy “muddles” through another year with modest earnings growth, Bob Doll, BlackRock chief equity strategist for fundamental equities, said Thursday in his 10 Predictions for 2012.
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PIMCO's El-Erian says U.S. economic conditions are terrifyingtruePacific Investment Management Co.'s Chief Executive Officer Mohamed A. El-Erian said U.S. economic conditions are “terrifying” given that the nation's is coming out of recession.
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