Eric Uhlfelder

• Foreign Affairs

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  November 1, 2007

  In the summer of 1992 George Soros saw an unusual opportunity in the then rarified world of currency trading. A dozen years earlier, the European...

• The Black Hole

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  April 1, 2007

  With the potential to inform both ad-visor and investor about what's driving portfolio performance, monthly brokerage statements should be as valuable as the quarterly performance...

• Safety Nets

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  March 1, 2007

  After releasing third-quarter results during the last week of October, Telenor, the once stodgy Norwegian telecom service provider, saw its stock soar 13.2 percent on...

• Preferred Primer

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  June 1, 2006

  Investors looking for compelling fixed-income investments are in a bit of a bind. Since the peak of the last bull market in early 2000, 10-year...

• Primed for Income

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  September 1, 2005

  When the bull market was peaking in the late 1990s, new issues of closed-end funds virtually dried up. According to Thomas J. Herzfeld Advisors, a...

• Bountiful Harvest

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  April 1, 2005

  For some advisors, the stock market's two-year winning streak has revived confidence in equities. But any such complacency may be misplaced, and while bonds have...

• Tightrope Act

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  August 1, 2004

  Investing in an environment of rising interest rates is a high-wire act. While bonds are paying more, their prices will continue to get smacked down...

• Foreign Appeal

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  April 1, 2004

  Advisors who practice asset allocation traditionally think of U.S. high-grade bonds as secure, predictable plays for the conservative investor, and find them an essential component...

• Global Voyage

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  October 1, 2003

  In the 1990s, when George Soros made headlines--and billions--trading the British pound and Southeast Asia's currencies, most investment advisors figured his activities were the kind...

• Shades of Gray

  By Eric Uhlfelder  |  September 30, 2003

  Planners are bedeviled with ethical issues, and et