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361 Capital portfolio manager, Blaine Rollins, CFA, previously manager of the Janus Fund, writes a weekly update looking back on major moves, macro-trends and economic data points. The 361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing summarizes the latest market news along with some interesting facts and a touch of humor. 361 Capital is a provider of alternative…

Today I’m out of the office from dawn til dusk as I’ll be attending my first ever Tiburon CEO Summit at the Ritz Carlton in downtown NYC! Tiburon is perhaps the most important conference for the wealth management industry held each year, an invite-only affair comprised almost completely of c-level executives and the highly influential…

JC Penney surprised The Street and the entire retail industry tonight with the sacking of Ron Johnson, during whose brief tenure on top roughly a billion dollars and several decades worth of customer goodwill had been exploded into the aether, like an old stadium wired with dynamite and blown to bits. This was demolition work,…

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Merrill Lynch Wealth Management is out with their new monthly CIO Report in which they make a some recommendations on how we should be thinking about the bond market. The bottom line seems to be that Merrill analysts think there will be plenty of time to pick up on a rise in rates given the…

Here’s Brian Gilmartin at Trinity Asset Management on a new record you’ve not yet heard about: The “forward 4-quarter” earnings estimate for the SP 500 is as of April 5th, 2013, $115.25, a record high for the key benchmark. The SP 500 is trading at 13.5(x) that forward estimate. The earnings yield on the SP…

Last week PIMCO held a Cyclical Outlook Webcast which took a 30,000 foot overview of some of the important drivers for the 2013 macro picture. Leading the discussion was Saumil Parikh CFA, who is a managing director, portfolio manager and a member of the PIMCO Investment Committee. He also leads the firm’s cyclical economic forums….