Asset Manager Interviews / NYSE Media Work
Rebecca Engmann Darst
Journalist
United States
https://investableuniverse.com
United States
https://investableuniverse.com
Asset Manager Interviews / NYSE Media Work
Norman Milner | Portfolio Manager Norman Milner discusses his approach to long short credit in today's market environment and how investors should consider fitting the strategy into their fixed income allocations. An investor should consider the Fund's investment objectives, risks and fees and expenses carefully before investing.
Charles Kantor, Portfolio ManagerNeuberger Berman Long Short Fund Charles Kantor shares his views on research, risk, results and his commitment to servicing clients. An investor should consider the Neuberger Berman Long Short Fund's investment objectives, risks and fees and expenses carefully before investing.
Market Newsletters / Trade Publication Writing
Charles Kantor, Portfolio ManagerNeuberger Berman Long Short Fund Charles Kantor shares his views on research, risk, results and his commitment to servicing clients. An investor should consider the Neuberger Berman Long Short Fund's investment objectives, risks and fees and expenses carefully before investing.
GENTOFTE, Denmark, Jan. 29, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Saxo Bank is proud to announce that Monex, an internet-based brokerage serving approximately 750,000 clients, has chosen to build its next-generation FX platform in partnership with Saxo Bank. Following extensive trials, Monex FX Pro will be introduced to active clients from Monday January 29, 2007.
Thanks to the far-reaching tentacles of the whole subprime mortgage debacle, whereby assets backed by mortgages now gone bad are turning up in portfolios around the world, the currency picture has undergone something of a facelift lately. Investors had been accustomed to selling low-interest, rate-bearing currencies and purchasing high-yielding currencies instead.
Today's tickers: ANH, NLY, MER, WM, FNM, AOB, LCC, CMTR, JNPR, RCL ANH - Implied options volatility in Anworth Mortgage Asset Corp. spiked severely higher as the REIT company suffered a broker downgrade. It's amazing how a change to "market perform" from "outperform" can send shares down by 21% in a session to $6.97.
SHLD - Sears Holdings - An ugly showdown at the Sears Holdings annual meeting between the company's hedge fund manager-cum-CEO Eddie Lampert and rival William Ackman, Sears' fourth-largest
Andrew Wilkinson and Rebecca Engmann Darst are commentators with Interactive Brokers, an options research and trading company in Greenwich, Conn. GREENWICH, Conn. (MarketWatch) -- The following is options-market commentary from Interactive Brokers detailing the most active options contracts in the market as of midday Friday: Shares in technology and entertainment company CNET Networks, Inc.
Markets Journalism
One week after a grilling before the Senate Banking Committee, embroiled Wells Fargo & Co. ( WFC) CEO John Stumpf faced a second day of scrutiny on Capitol Hill on Thursday, this time before the House Financial Services Committee. (See also: Wells Fargo takes hit from California Treasurer .)
As volatility remains at crisis levels, more and more retail option traders are getting sidelined by high costs. Volumes are undeniably lower, premiums are higher, and spreads are wider. Still, there are strategies option traders can use to survive the tide.
Banking giant Wells Fargo & Co ( WFC) shares traded higher late Thursday against news of an $185 million settlement with the nation's Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, and the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office.
Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf occupied the hottest seat on Capitol Hill on Tuesday as he testified before the Senate Banking committee regarding the bank's recent account fraud scandal. "I am deeply sorry that we failed to fulfill our responsibility to our customers, to our team members and to the American public.
Editor's note: This was originally published on RealMoney. It is being republished as a bonus for TheStreet.com readers. Conventional wisdom has it that options expiration week is a "witching hour" for volatility, as traders rush to put on or roll out positions into subsequent months.
J.P. Morgan Asset Management, a division of JPMorgan Chase & Co. ( JPM), today unfurled its first exchange traded fund devoted to actively managed, alternative asset strategies. The ETF, titled the JPMorgan Diversified Alternatives ETF ( JPHF), is engineered to give investors diversified exposure to a basket of traditional hedge fund strategies, including global macro and equity long/short strategies.
CNBC / NYSE appearances
Art/Cultural Pieces
An interview with director Lars von Trier in connection with the release of "Dancer in the Dark," which won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival that year.
The mammoth retrospective that was 'Organizing Freedom' took its title from the lyrics of Björk's song 'Homogenic' (1997): 'thought I could organize freedom, how Scandinavian of me!'. Over the last decade a playful, full flowering of the art scene has resulted in the so-called 'Nordic Miracle' generation, who have become the most widely exhibited group of Scandinavian artists in history.