electronics

• Unemployment and the Recovery

  By Robert Huebscher  |  December 7, 2009

  Unemployment will have a greater role in forecasting returns in this market than the lettered descriptor of the shape of the recovery. Whether we face inflation or deflation, too, will be largely dictated by unemployment.

• Japan: Closed for Remodeling

  By Alexei Bayer  |  August 1, 2008

  Japan is amazing. Its economy stagnated for nearly two decades even as the rest of the world experienced dynamic economic growth, a technology revolution and...

• How Will People Invest?

  By Staff Writer  |  June 1, 2008

  Investors today know and understand the markets better than in the past. There is a greater curiosity and ongoing interest. This demand for knowledge and...

• Stagflation Nation

  By Alexei Bayer  |  April 1, 2008

  About a year ago, I was interviewing the head of a New York City-based broker-dealer for my Research column. The conversation turned to inflation --...

• Security Blanket

  By Richard J. Koreto  |  October 1, 2007

  For thousands of viewers, the latest Bourne techno-thriller may be escapist fun. But Paul Viollis probably views it as a documentary. Viollis is the CEO of...

• Too Much Tech?

  By Charles Lane  |  April 1, 2007

  Nightmare scenario No.1: En route to a meeting with your most demanding client, you're driving along a rural road that meanders in and out of...

• More Art Than Science

  By Kathleen McBride, AdvisorOne  |  February 1, 2007

  One popular way to diversify equity assets is with international investing; there are plenty of single-country, region, and international funds around, not to mention the...

• Plugged In

  By Britt Erica Tunick  |  July 1, 2006

  If exposure to technology has bee n driving your clients' portfolios up ward, you probably have teenagers to thank. The ubiquitous Apple iPod, launched in...

• For Funds, Homeland Security Involves More Than Playing Defense

  By Staff Writer  |  June 2, 2006

  Opportunities abound outside the traditional defense sector

• Gold Rush

  By Vanessa Drucker  |  June 1, 2006

  John Maynard Keynes famously labeled gold a "barbaric relic." After bottoming in the summer of 1999, the relic has rebounded, more than doubling in value...