MutualFundWire.com: Have You Gotten Over Correlation?
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Have You Gotten Over Correlation?


Bloomberg Markets Magazine has declared the end of an era, that is the end of stocks' correlation with macroeconomic events.

The newswire's Inyoung Hwang reported on a new Greenwich Associates survey of 945 buy-side analysts at 190 investment management firms, mutual funds, hedge funds, pension funds and insurers for a few months. Those analysts surveyed named the research teams they regarded as the best sources of advice.

Noelle Grainger, JP Morgan [profile] Chase's head of equity research in the Americas, whose research unit scored the largest number of analysts, told Hwang that there are weakening correlation signals to world events that typically move markets, such as the U.S. fiscal deficit and Europe's debt crisis. Instead, these analysts are looking to earnings reports, market share and technology changes, Hwang writes.

Bank of America scored number two and Morgan Stanley scored number three on the survey, Hwang writes.

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