High debt levels have raised the chances of a global recession in the next three to five years to more than 60 percent, said Pimco, which manages the world's largest bond fund.

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The world's biggest bond fund manager Bill Gross has had a change of heart on Treasurys, raising allocations to U.S.government bonds, as the fund seeks to pre-empt an increase in buying from Japanese investors....

Goldman Sachs strategists have issued a big warning to clients hiding out in bond funds: You're about to lose your shirt. The reason: interest rates began rising this week, and if they return to the historical ...

If you own a bond fund, dividend paying stock or ETF - and that seems to be everybody these days, especially those of us who are yield-hungry and aging - just remember: When rates go up, yields go down....

How important is choice in your 401(k) options? Do you want to have a set of 10 or 20 mutual funds and investments from which you get to choose your retirement portfolio allocation? There's a concept gaining ...

Big flows recently out of junk bond funds like HYG point to lessons on how not to trade ETFs.Headlines today focused on big outflows from the iShares iBoxx High Yield Bond ETF .

There is an emerging and overlooked user group of ETFs: mutual funds.ETFs have been seeing money move in the door while investors flee U.S. stock mutual funds. Also driving the inflows are mutual fund ...

Target-date mutual funds sound like no-brainer investments.They have set target dates, usually matched to an investor's target retirement year. As the target date nears, say 2020, investment allocations ...

Fund managers used to be able to charge high fees even if their mutual funds underperformed markets, but now they need to find new ways to win back investors who have piled out of traditional actively-managed ...

Bill Gross, the co-Chief Investment Officer of Pimco, and manager of the world's largest bond funds, has weighed in on recent central bank action with a scathing tweet.

Walk into your bank's neighborhood branch or visit its website and you're offered a choice of the usual checking and savings accounts, along with slightly more sophisticated products - mutual funds, annuities, ...

Bill Gross, the world's biggest bond fund manager at PIMCO, said the U.S. is the least bad choice in a poor global investment environment, but this could change if Washington doesn't get control of the ...

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Ask people what they think about Facebook, and you're likely to hear everything from "It's a terrific way to connect with friends and family," to "It's a colossal drain on time and productivity."Soon, ...

When it comes to investing, it's hard to know who to follow these days. Since September 2009, the Vanguard Total Stock Market index fund (VTSMX) is up 33.4 percent. The Dow is approaching 12,900, reaching ...

Does the departure of a famous manager tell us anything about the outlook for active ETFs?Bill Miller’s value-oriented mutual fund had a great run, besting the S'P 500 for 15 straight years b...

iShares continues push into more focused strategies, filing to market five broad commodity-focused equity funds.

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