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• Home Appraisal: Housing Cycle Should Continue to Fuel Consumer Spending

  BNET - 2005-07-01

  The strength of the housing market and the rapid rise in house prices have led many to conclude that housing is a bubble now ready to burst. But the housing market is lifted by numerous factors that suggest that the cycle could last longer than many think. Despite record mortgage...

  Tags: Housing Market, Appraisal, Alliance Capital Management, Mortgages, Finance, Capital Structures

• Perspectives on the Markets: Beware the Herd Mentality

  BNET - 2005-05-01

  This report provides an outlook for the capital markets. It reports that powerful trends in inflation, interest rates and the currency markets are being widely perceived as threatening to economic growth, corporate earnings and valuation. The U.S. current account deficit and high oil prices are appropriate drivers of the market's...

  Tags: Alliance Capital Management, Currency & Foreign Exchange, Investment, Financial Services, Financial Planning, Finance

• Fortune or Misfortune? Building a Portfolio That Meets Your Goals

  BNET - 2004-09-16

  The first step in building an investment portfolio is to choose from among the bewildering array of financial assets that are now available. The fact is, for most people there is no single "right" type of investment. Placing those proverbial eggs in one basket - no matter how sturdy it...

  Tags: Portfolio, Alliance Capital Management, Asset Management, Investment, Financial Accounting, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance

• Portfolios Without Frontiers

  BNET - 2004-07-01

  The United States has long been considered the most sophisticated investment market in the world, setting trends that other markets have followed, such as the shift from generalist to specialist equity managers. But the U.S. has been slower than elsewhere to adopt a globally integrated approach to equities, preferring to...

  Tags: U.S., Equity, Alliance Capital Management, Investment, Financial Services, Finance

• Battling Mean Reversion: How Growth Investors Can Beat the Inevitable

  BNET - 2004-07-01

  Growth investing is a tough endeavor. Given the magnitude of the challenges and the recent underperformance of the growth style against value - some market watchers have questioned whether an underlying shift has emerged, making growth investing fundamentally more difficult. However this paper based on a research suggests that, as...

  Tags: Growth, Alliance Capital Management, Investor, Financial Accounting, Finance

• Will a Declining Dollar Offer New Investment Opportunities? The Answer Is Yes

  BNET - 2004-03-01

  This article examines the factors are fueling the dollar's decline. It also discusses the investment opportunities might be available to turn this trend to an investor's advantage. Stronger international stock markets and a declining dollar have historically made a powerful combination, with attractive equity returns "enhanced" as those profits are...

  Tags: Investment Opportunity, Dollar, Alliance Capital Management, Investment, Financial Services, Finance

• Spitzer set to charge mutual funds.

  - 2003-11-10

  Eliot Spitzer, New York attorney general, will step up his reform of mutual fund trading by filing several civil and criminal charges against fund companies.The purpose of the moves is to create a steady drum beat of charges that will lead to structural reform of the $7...

  Tags: Alliance Capital Management, Benefits, FINANCE, Government, Invesco, Investment, Regulations, regulator

• DeAM awarded Scholarships for bonds.

  - 2003-09-10

  Sep 10, 2003 (Investor Weekly - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Scholarships Group ASG has allocated a $A10.1 million bonds investment mandate to Deutsche Asset Management DeAM. John Habboush from ASG, a $A1 billion not-for-profit entity that provides educational scholarships, notes that DeAM...

  Tags: Alliance Capital Management, bond, Deutsche Asset Management, FINANCE, Investment, scholarship

• Alliance World Dollar Government Fund Ii, Inc. Dividend Declaration

  - 2002-11-01

  NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--June 25, 1996--Alliance World Dollar Government Fund II, Inc. (NYSE: AWF), a closed-end management investment company, declared on this date, June 25, 1996, a monthly income dividend of $0.1186 per share of Common Stock, payable on July 19, 1996 to stockholders of record at the close of business...

  Tags: alliance, Alliance Capital Management, Business Wire, FINANCE

• AXA mulls backoffice outsource.

  - 2002-06-02

  Jun 02, 2002 Investor Weekly ABIX via COMTEX -- The back office administrative operations of AXA Australia Funds Management is being assessed. The strategic direction of the Australian fund manager as well as ensuring a quality benchmark approach are goals. The global custodian for...

  Tags: Alliance Capital Management, back-office, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, FINANCE, outsource, Outsourcing