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Fayez Sarofim, Buffett-Style Investor and Art Collector, Dies at 93
Fayez Sarofim, an Egyptian immigrant who built a successful investment firm with an approach similar to Warren Buffett’s, died in Houston on Saturday at age 93. Sarofim, who became a billionaire, had ...
Americans are still saving for retirement — and becoming 401(k) millionaires
Americans may be afraid to look at their retirement accounts thanks to stock market volatility, but many investors are still staying the course, according to Fidelity Investments’ most recent data rel...
What Bitcoin Could Be Worth to Fidelity. You’ll Be Surprised.
Text size Fidelity’s push into Bitcoin is raising controversy but could be lucrative for the company. Dreamstime.com Fidelity Investments shocked the retirement industry last month with a move t...
Annaly Capital to Sell Middle- Market Lending Portfolio to Ares for About $2.4 Billion
Text size Ares currently has $314 billion assets under management, up from $25 billion in 2008. Dreamstime Ares Management Corp said Monday that it agreed to buy the middle-market lending portfolio of...
BlackRock Stock Has Slid. Director William E. Ford Scooped Up Shares.
BlackRock stock has tumbled this year, and director William E. Ford, the chairman and CEO of investment firm General Atlantic, scooped up shares of the asset manager on the open market. BlackRock (tic...
Opinion: This will be a year for stock market traders — here are 12 companies to favor, says 40-year investing veteran Bob Doll
If you’re relatively new to investing, and you think 2022 has been a year from hell, imagine being in the stock market for over 40 years. That would’ve put you through the Great Financial Crisis in 20...
Oil Service Stocks Are Gaining Steam. These Are the Ones to Watch.
Text size Prices and margins are improving for companies like Haliburton. Dreamstime Oil services and equipment companies slimmed down after the last oil bust, and that’s left them looking lean as oil...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are Hours for Easter Monday 2022.
Text size Dreamstime U.S. investors eager to trade after the holiday weekend will have plenty of news to digest, thanks to corporate earnings. More than 100 companies are slated to report this week—an...
Get ready for a ‘new world order’ that drives stocks and bonds: BlackRock
It’s an end of an era. That’s BlackRocks Inc.’s BLK, +1.62% Tony DeSpirito, chief investment officer in the U.S. fundamental equities division of the world’s largest asset manager, telling investors t...
What’s Holding Back Actively Managed ETFs
Text size Dreamstime Fidelity and T. Rowe Price run some excellent actively managed mutual funds. Chances are you will never see them in ETF form. Many new active exchange-traded funds have launched s...
Why a ‘1970s-style’ inflation spiral is a growing threat, according to a major hedge fund
One of the world’s largest macro hedge funds sees a rising risk of a 1970s-type wage-price spiral, according to a Thursday news report. “This combination of high inflation, tight labour markets, and u...
Larry Fink says globalization is over — Here’s what it means for the markets
BlackRock founder Larry Fink declared that the Russia-Ukraine war is bringing the era of globalization to an end, but investors should keep in mind that the global economy and the financial system can...
Edward ‘Ned’ Johnson, Former Fidelity CEO and Fund Pioneer, Dies
Text size Edward “‘Ned” Johnson III built Fidelity Investments into a giant financial services firm. Neal Hamberg/Bloomberg News Edward “Ned” Johnson III, who built Fidelity Investme...
It’s the beginning of the end of globalization, say BlackRock’s Larry Fink and Oaktree’s Howard Marks
“The magnitude of Russia’s actions will play out for decades to come and mark a turning point in the world order of geopolitics, macroeconomic trends, and capital markets.” That was Larry Fink, CEO of...
The world’s largest asset manager and a big bond fund are reported to be early losers from the war in Ukraine
As Wall Street assesses the damage to balance sheets resulting from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world’s largest asset manager and a big bond fund are reported to be early losers. BlackRock BLK, ...
C3.ai increases full-year revenue outlook, but stock dips
Shares of C3.ai Inc. were headed lower in after-hours trading Wednesday, though the maker of artificial-intelligence software reported better-than-expected revenue and earnings results and raised its ...
Calling Out ‘Emperor’ Larry Fink
When you’re 98 years old you can say things others can’t, so bravo to Charlie Munger for daring to speak an important but too muffled truth about today’s financial markets. “We have a new bunch of emp...
Charlie Munger Expects Index Funds to Change the World—and Not in a Good Way
Charlie Munger doesn’t think Larry Fink should be running the world. Mr. Munger, the billionaire vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and Warren Buffett’s business partner, said the rise of index ...
George Soros Buys a Big Rivian Stake
Text size Soros Fund Management’s stake was worth about $2.1 billion at the end of December. Courtesy Rivian George Soros’ family investment office, Soros Fund Management, revealed a new stake i...
Billionaire George Soros reveals stake in Rivian, sells some tech shares
Billionaire George Soros’ investment fund has taken a more than $1 billion stake in electric-pickup maker Rivian Automotive Inc. According to a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Fr...
Four value-stock picks from a fund manager who steers clear of the energy sector
Jensen Investment Management follows a simple rule for initial screenings of stocks: Companies need to have achieved returns on equity (ROE) of at least 15% annually, for at least 10 consecutive years...