Spiegel speculate that as the baby boomer generation ages, they are likely to shift from buying stocks to selling their equity holdings to finance retirement, and this shift could be a factor holding down equity valuations over the next two decades.

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The eternally bearish David Rosenberg at Gluskin Sheff saw a large equity correction and a violent shift onto safer-Treasuries (thus sending yields diving).

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With this zesty infusion of equity capital Zuckerman could turn his back on the suburbs and shift his focus to the subject of his boyhood dreams: huge landmark buildings downtown.

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Something strange happens when you shift the metric from Return on Assets to Return on Equity, or shareholder funds.

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The shift can be seen on Wall Street, where investment banks' equity strategists have raced to increase their targets for where stocks will end the year.

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Flows of new money into equity funds have slowed somewhat, as investors who are fully invested in stocks have begun to shift a healthy slice of their portfolios into cash.

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The shift marks the latest attempt by city officials to address a seemingly intractable problem: How to create equity in the admissions process for its gifted and talented program, which begins in kindergarten and goes through third grade.

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For years endowments led by the likes of Harvard University and Yale University rushed into private equity investments to boost returns, but the global financial crisis has caused many endowments, particularly larger ones, to shift their strategy.

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