Asset allocation ignites Wall St. timing debate

Article Abstract:

Asset allocation strategy is becoming popular with investors since the stock market crash in 1987. Sales on mutual funds through asset allocation strategy for 1992 alone reached a staggering amount of $3.1 billion. The mutual fund industry grew at a rate of 35%. Asset allocation funds are protected by cash and bonds and they can be easily converted from one asset class to another as market conditions change.

Management, Portfolio management, Investments

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Avid yield-seekers going after 'new' junk

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Institutional investors are turning once more to the high-yield junk bond market. Current returns of better than 10% are better than the benchmark seven-year Treasury note and the highly volatile 30-year Treasury bond. Still, the yields are not the same as those produced during the disaster of 1989-1990. Junk bonds only managed total returns of above 35% in 1991 and a little higher than 15% in 1992.

Prices and rates, Institutional investments, Junk bonds, Treasury market

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Looking at declines, rebounds, expansions

Article Abstract:

Europe will experience lower interest rates, Japan will get out of the recession and the export markets in Hong Kong will further expand, according to forecasts from economic observers. The recession in the US is also expected to decline much more rapidly than in Europe, however, long-term European economic prospects are better due to cheaper markets and low interest rates.

United States, Europe, Reports, Forecasts and trends, Hong Kong, Economic forecasting

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