Passive investing has become more popular than active investing in the U.S., but the trend may be changing soon, according to Jill Carey Hall, U.S. equity strategist at BofA Global Research. The amount of assets managed by passive funds have overtaken those overseen by active funds, according to data from BofA Global Research. Only 47%
Published: Feb. 8, 2024 at 6:41 a.m. ET By Christian Moess Laursen One of the largest pension funds in the Netherlands, PFZW, has sold all of its stakes in Shell, BP and TotalEnergies, saying they aren’t investing fast enough in the switch from fossil to low-carbon fuel. PFZW–which managed around $256 billion at the end
The Securities and Exchange Commission is set to impose new rules that would require many private funds to register with the agency as so-called dealers, a move that regulators say will help them better monitor a sometimes wobbly market for U.S. government debt. When firms that deal Treasury bonds register with the SEC “they become
A pair of activist investors have pulled their request for shareholder votes on climate-related proposals after ExxonMobil sued to keep them off the ballot at the company’s upcoming meeting. But while Arjuna Capital and the environmental group Follow This say they will not refile the proposals, Exxon still wants a U.S. court in Texas to
Published: Feb. 2, 2024 at 6:47 p.m. ET One of Wall Street’s biggest bears will be giving up some of his duties, stirring memories for some investors and market mavens of a previous shakeup that proved ill-timed for the market. Mike Wilson will leave his post as chair of Morgan Stanley’s Global Investment Committee but
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The biggest bombshell in Apple ’s December quarter earnings report came on the company’s conference call, when CFO Luca Maestri provided a hugely disappointing forecast for the March quarter. Management’s guidance, implying overall quarterly revenue will fall 5% from a year earlier to about $90 billion, with a drop of nearly 10% in iPhone sales,
Published: Jan. 31, 2024 at 9:39 p.m. ET By Kosaku Narioka Aozora Bank shares fell sharply after it projected a fiscal-year net loss due to higher provisions for U.S. office loans as well as losses from foreign bonds. Shares were recently 21% lower at 2,557.0 yen, falling to the day’s trading limit on Thursday morning.
New York Community Bancorp reported a surprise loss as it wrote down bad real estate loans, sending its stock tumbling Wednesday and dragging down the share prices of regional banks across the country. “This was a major negative surprise,” Jon G. Arfstrom, an analyst at RBC Capital Markets, said in a Wednesday note. New York
Stock-market investors fear a megacap meltdown. Here’s what history says.
Investors spent 2023 fretting about the sustainability of a stock-market rally largely driven by a handful of megacap tech stocks. Those worries remain in place as the S&P 500 has returned to record territory in the new year. “With the usual set of select megacap stocks pacing early 2024 performance, concentration-risk worries have been getting