Despite all of this, valuations have continued to climb. U.S. stocks are now trading at roughly 2.5…

"While I still believe US and global equity valuations are reasonable and stocks can advance over t…

"While Reinhart and Rogoff have publicly admitted mistakes in their methodology, their paper’s basi…

But having said that, Koesterich doesn't think stocks are obviously cheap either. Specifically, he…

Why is this number so important? While consumer resilience to the tax increase can partly be attrib…

Russ Koesterich, Chief Investment Strategist at BlackRock, has a new post on the iShares blog title…

Koesterich does admit there are two peculiar reasons that stocks look cheap: 1) profit margins are …

"U.S. stocks are now trading at roughly 2.5x book value, a 15% increase from the end of 2012," said…

"U.S. stocks are now trading at roughly 2.5x book value, a 15% increase from the end of 2012," said…

The conventional wisdom, of course, is that Fed tightening is bad for gold, mainly because higher U…

The financial crisis was followed by a wave of new policies and regulations intended to prevent the…

"In contrast to the accelerating growth we saw in the United States, internationally, Japan's consu…

Additionally, BlackRock is expecting volatility to be a major feature of 2015. Regional "zero-sum c…

But now that we're some years on from the financial crisis and some of the trauma has started to di…

Now that the Republicans have taken control of Congress, "faster adoption of liquefied natural gas …

The problem with this, however, is that there is a difference between a client's attitude toward ri…

"When Accredited Investors in Minneapolis recently projected its AUM growth over the next 10 years,…

Another problem with indexing is that it leads to market inefficiencies. Philips stated that as ind…

"Taking a firm focused on retirees and managing their assets, and trying to mix in clients of all a…

After a good run, risk-parity strategies "have been struggling," writes Daniel Loewy on the Allianc…