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...healthy 5%--not bad in an uncertain environment in which Treasury bonds yield just a tad more and corporate profits are likely to downshift from double-digit growth to the 6%-to-8% range. For the past few months, money funds have had the best returns of the major asset classes. It used to be tough to find much more than a 1% money-fund yield."Having liquidity and getting 5% are a big deal," says Peter Crane, president of money-fund tracker Crane Data...
History says that when too much money chases the same asset class, things end badly. As the bids go higher and the deals get thinner, private companies carry ever greater debt. Four years ago, 41% of the payment for the average buyout came from equity and the rest from debt. Today the average equity level is down to 35%, according to S&P. That is still a far cry from the 7% equity levels of the original buyout craze, but the trend is nonetheless an indicator that the industry is starting to overheat. "That often happens toward...
...earnings made for heady increases in stock and commodities markets around the world. This has created the illusion that just about any bet - even the risky ones such as sugar futures and Indian pharmaceutical companies - was bound to pay off handsomely. Since May, that optimism has been challenged. Today asset prices are being weighed down by two powerful forces: monetary policy and geopolitical angst. This [an error occurred while processing this directive] spells "risk reduction" for most investors - a far cry from the "risk-hungry" investment strategies that have worked so well over the past several years. Why the sudden...
...Stanford, he was managing director of absolute return and fixed income for the University’s $12.2 billion endowment. He was also involved in asset allocation and risk management...
...Mark’s breadth of investment experience across a spectrum of asset classes, his analytical strengths, and his knowledge of the external management landscape will serve to further strengthen our Company’s ability to generate over time superior returns for the endowment and related funds,” he said in a statement...