42 Retirement Systems of Alabama Millions Total assets $29,103 Defined benefit $28,098 Defined contribution $1,005 DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer DB contributions $684 Benefit payments $1,846 Asset...
FOR A description of each column heading, turn to page 72. Some additional information about the international stock fund listings: CATEGORY. Divers diversified international funds invest primarily in stocks of larger companies based outside the U.S. DivSm includes funds that invest in...
U.S. STOCK FUNDS are categorized by investment style. For more on investment style, see page 72. Among the most useful statistics on these pages are the columns showing the year-by-year decile rank of each fund within its investing style. In other words, a fund ranked 1 in...
TYLER MATHISEN, CNBC ANCHOR: Moving on to "Making Money Now" with a top mutual fund manager who prefers stocks overwhelmingly to bonds in his asset allocation fund. Jeff Knight, portfolio manager of the Putnam AA Growth Fund, which is one of the top-performing funds in...
Byline: Frederick P. Gabriel Jr. Putnam Investments LLC just can't get those regulators off its back. The Department of Labor is investigating the Boston mutual fund company for restrictions on trading of its parent company's stock which...
THINGS COULD BE BETTER ... BUT THEY could be a lot worse, too. That was the state of mutual funds in mid-2004. As of the end of Nay, stock funds were up a trifle and bond funds had lost a little ground. Considering the geopolitical turmoil and rising interest rates...
By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 5--When corporate America came looking for raises last year, Boston's largest mutual funds routinely turned them down, voting in hundreds of cases against lucrative stock and options packages for senior executives, ...
THE market timing and late trading scandal which is swirling around the US markets - and has already led to the closure of one American bank and a haemorrhaging of funds from Boston-based Putnam Investments - was last week revealed to have reached Edinburgh. Standard Life Investments,...
By Andrew Caffrey, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 1--Marsh & McLennan Cos. chief executive Jeffrey W. Greenberg will be in Boston Monday to confront the growing scandal involving the giant brokerage firm's mutual fund unit, Putnam Investments. ...
NEW YORK -- Using inside information, institutional investors were able to save tens of millions of dollars by selling stock before the public found out how badly profits were deteriorating at Schering- Plough, the Securities and Exchange Commission said on Tuesday. The commission brought administrative proceedings against...
Scanning the newspaper pages, you try in vain to find your favorite company's stock quotes. Think that spells trouble? It could, because it might mean they've gone under. Or it might not. It might mean they've simply been delisted from a particular exchange or quotation system,...
Byline: Phillipa Leighton-Jones SuperMontage, the trading platform launched by Nasdaq last month, has yet to wrestle market share from electronic communications networks ECNs in the US, according to the latest figures on US equities trading.The system has not yet made the dramatic impact on...
By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Oct. 9--Putnam Investments has reassigned its investment chief and tapped two executives to co-lead its money management operations, following two years of dismal performance in growth-stock funds that has tarnished the firm's...
A A A Abbott Laboratories ($ millions) Total assets 8,266 Defined benefit 2,692 Defined contribution 5,574 DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer DB contributions 0 Benefit payments 87 Asset mix: Domestic stocks 61.2% Domestic fixed income 28.8% Foreign stocks 10.0% Internally managed assets 203 DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN: Assets...
A A A Abbott Laboratories ($ millions) Total assets 8,266 Defined benefit 2,692 Defined contribution 5,574 DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer DB contributions 0 Benefit payments 87 Asset mix: Domestic stocks 61.2% Domestic fixed income 28.8% Foreign stocks 10.0% Internally managed assets 203 DEFINED CONTRIBUTION PLAN: Assets...
In the movies, sequels almost never live up to the original. There may have been a market that allowed producers to make and show "Jaws 3," "Rocky IV" (and "V"), "Lethal Weapon 2" thru "IV" they all ran together for me, and even "Godzilla 2000" or the "Star...
OUR RANKINGS of more than 1,000 funds begin with those that invest in stocks of U.S. companies. Stock funds are divided into six categories. AggGro (aggressive-growth) funds seek maximum capital gains, often in somewhat volatile small-company stocks. Growth (long-term-growth) funds also seek capital gains but tend to invest in stocks...
[M] Maine State Retirement System ($ millions) Total assets 6,564 Defined benefit 6,562 Defined contribution 2 DEFINED BENEFIT PLAN: Employer contributions 412 Benefit payments 326 Asset mix: Domestic stocks ...
The bad news is that California's energy crisis could be a mild harbinger of things to come, particularly in the heavily populated northeastern United States, where energy consumption will increase dramatically this summer. Some economic theo The bad...
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