From CAPITAL MARKETS 3:13pm

Warning signs for US corporate bonds

Market looking expensive and borrowers are paying higher premiums

Industry trends

A clearing house ©Bloomberg
The future slowly becomes clearer
– Special report
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Many Americans have no idea how to plan for retirement
– Special report
Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway ©AFP From COMPANIES 5:38pm

Buffett sees opportunity in uncertainty

Berkshire chief takes others to task for not investing

The Last Word from FTFM OPINION Mar 3, 2013

Consistency in an uncertain world

There are few exceptions to the mean-reversion rule, finds Edward Chancellor

From PENSIONS INDUSTRY Mar 3, 2013

UK pensions push for flexible accounting

Many schemes are struggling to match assets and liabilities

Mar 3, 2013

Legg Mason survey finds investors wanting

There is a significant gap between expected and actual returns

wheat ©Bloomberg The Big Picture Mar 3, 2013

Food price speculation taken off the menu

Many banks acting on scathing report from Oxfam; others dispute its claims

Mar 3, 2013

Oxfam takes food fight to Belgium

KBC and Dexia Asset Management among those banks the charity has in its sights

Abstract view of a carnival ferris wheel at night ©Dreamstime Mar 3, 2013

Search for yield grows more balanced

Investors have a new solution to the pain of holding cash but bonds have not been forgotten

Mario Draghi ©Reuters Mar 3, 2013

Political instability tests Draghi pledge

Worries over volatile states are triggering debate about the ECB’s support programme

The exclusive shopping mall GUM on the Red Square in Moscow ©Getty Mar 3, 2013

Local currency funds come out of shadows

Big international institutions are following the hedge funds away from hard currency-focused bonds

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