Nevertheless, Battipaglia is 70% in equities right now, choosing to not fight the tape.
Second, the Church is jolly unusual in retaining its faith in equities or shares.
As such, we were surprised to see the sharp sell-off in equities on Wednesday.
The explanation is that the earth-bound Pensions Regulator has less faith than the vicars in equities.
Smart speculators will quickly take their profits in oil and invest their gains in equities.
Another 30% was invested in hedge funds, 25% in equities and 10% in private equity.
Mr. Dwyer believes trends in core inflation provide the context for continued upward movement in equities.
Some is in overseas corporate debt, and slivers are in equities and local-currency debt.
Weakness in equities also weighed on gold, which have been very strongly correlated recently.
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Essentially, investors have demanded a six-percentage point premium for taking the risk of investing in equities.
In addition, reinvesting dividends in equities may only exacerbate return problems in a down market.
Only about 10% of Japan's financial assets are invested in equities and mutual funds.
He admitted there are not a lot of bargains out there, given the strength in equities.
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The bottom portion of the chart shows the weight each portfolio held in equities over time.
When I spoke to Munro in September, they were about 20 percent in equities.
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Outflows have been the theme of the last two quarters, both in equities as well as commodities.
Thus, a fund that is prohibited from investing in equities generally cannot invest in equity mutual funds.
And all of it is invested, long only, in equities, even during weeks of hair-raisingly bad news.
Gold prices have fallen consistently since last October, just before the impressive rally in equities took off.
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The Vanguard target retirement funds invest between 47%-90% in equities for funds dated from 2005 to 2050.
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Investors may continue to seek safety in gold over looking for returns in equities or fixed income.
Individual investors kept 61.0% of their portfolios in equities last month, a drop of 1.9 percentage points.
Even so, the potential for electronic bond trading may be less than in equities, futures and options.
European bank stocks extended their losses from Thursday, joining U.S. banks in leading the broad decline in equities.
He prevailed chiefly by being 100% in equities until 2000 and then getting 100% back in, in 2002.
They are thus becoming more like American insurers, which hardly invest in equities and take more credit risk.
The British life firms are particularly fragile, because they invested more in equities than their continental peers did.
Homebuilders were leading the decline in equities Friday after Beazer Homes announced it received purported notices of default.
There was some delay before industrial metals extended their slide after the summer drop in equities, Lewis said.
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Although a drop in equities might provide some momentum to gold prices, Widmer said the impact would be limited.
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