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The New Investment World is Not Near, It’s Here (Koesterich)
Change is inevitable, but the recent pace and magnitude of economic change has left many investors disoriented, to…
A Two-Pronged Case for Holding Gold (Koesterich)
by Russ Koesterich, iShares I’ve been advocating gold as a long-term investment and also as a risk management…
Reading the Right Tea Leaves to Gauge Market Volatility
by Daniel Morillo, Ph. D., iShares Investors have become all too familiar with volatility in recent years as…
The Bullish Case for Energy Stocks
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, iShares Lower crude oil inventories and less spare capacity among OPEC oil producers…
Groundhog Day: Will September’s Sell-off Repeat?
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, iShares Come September investors might feel as if they are trapped in their…
Minimum Volatility: Bowling with Bumpers
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, iShares A few weeks ago, I was sitting on an industry panel with…
CASSH-ing In
Last fall, I introduced the concept of investing in the CASSH countries– Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Singapore and Hong…
Mythbusting: How Elections Affect Markets
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, iShares Elections do matter for the markets, but not necessarily for the…
Whither Global Stocks? Be Sure to Track This Data
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, iShares Sometimes, either weak economic numbers or strong economic numbers can point…
How to Gauge Risk Appetite
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, iShares With investor risk appetite often driving market performance these days, it’s…
After the Downgrade: German Stocks or Bonds?
Amid rising uncertainty surrounding Europe, Moody’s earlier this week lowered its outlookfor Germany. Now, given the likelihood that…
US Utilities: Don’t Overpay for Yield
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, iShares As short-term interest rates remain at or close to zero, investors…
The Fiscal Cliff: 4 Reasons To Be Concerned
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, iShares Despite all the headlines lately warning about the pending fiscal cliff,…
Are Europe’s Courts a Brake on Reform?
by Russ Koesterich, Portfolio Manager, iShares A few weeks ago, the Wall Street Journal reported that a…
4 Reasons to Like China
Last month, in my Investment Directions monthly commentary, I predicted that we’d see further stimulus from China…
