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Market Monitor

Market Monitor, the online weekly economic commentary authored by our Investment Strategy and Client Solutions Team, is now available. Market Monitor provides a weekly view of current economic and financial markets, plus up-to-date commentaries on topics of broad financial interest.

• 08/25/2008
  Inflation-Linked Bonds: Powerful Portfolio Diversifier (PDF)
• 08/18/2008
  Managing Risk Effectively (PDF)
• 08/14/2008
  Pushing Hard to Help Lift the Economy and Financial Markets (PDF)
• 08/04/2008
  Anatomy of Two Benchmarks: The Russell 3000 and Russell 1000 (PDF)
• 07/28/2008
  Quarterly Market and Economic Commentary (PDF)
• 07/21/2008
  Why Should Ratings Be Important to You? (PDF)
• 07/14/2008
  Socially Responsible Investing: Evolving Strategies, Growing Demand (PDF)
• 07/07/2008
  Investing in Commodities (PDF)
• 06/30/2008
  The Fed Is in a Holding Pattern, at Least for Now (PDF)
• 06/23/2008
  The Credit Crisis: The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? (PDF)
• 06/16/2008
  Understanding Risk-Adjusted Investment Returns (PDF)
• 06/11/2008
  Asset Allocation in Volatile Markets (PDF)
• 06/02/2008
  US Commercial Real Estate Update: Bearing Up Well Under Pressure (PDF)
• 05/19/2008
  Risk and Its Rewards (PDF)
• 05/15/2008
  The Declining Dollar and Inflation: Where Do We Go From Here? (PDF)
• 04/28/2008
  First Quarter 2008 Economic Developments (PDF)
• 04/21/2008
  Fundamental Equity Research (PDF)
• 04/14/2008
  Volatility and Its Discontents (PDF)
• 04/07/2008
  Solutions for a Lifetime (PDF)
• 03/31/2008
  A Whiff of Stagflation in the Air? (PDF)
• 03/24/2008
  India's Still on Track to Eclipse China as World Growth Leader (PDF)
• 03/17/2008
  Can Bankers Bank? (PDF)
• 03/10/2008
  The Credit Crunch Bites (PDF)
• 03/03/2008
  Will China Stumble as the U.S. Slows Close to Recession? (PDF)
• 02/21/2008
  A Whiff of Stagflation (PDF)
• 02/04/2008
  Commercial Real Estate Investment Performance Update and Outlook (PDF)
• 01/28/2008
  Update on Recent Global Economic Developments (PDF)
• 01/14/2008
  Enhanced Indexing and Quantitative Investment Management (PDF)
• 01/11/2008
  2007 year-end review: Global Slowdown, Gyrating Markets and Flight to Quality (PDF)
• 12/17/2007
  Drivers of Recent Market Moves (PDF)
• 12/10/2007
  What's Up With Lifecycle Funds? (PDF)
• 12/03/2007
  The ABCs of RMBS (PDF)
• 11/26/2007
  Commercial Real Estate Outlook: Another Look at Fundamentals (PDF)
• 11/19/2007
  Market Volatility and the Contagion Effect (PDF)
• 11/12/2007
  Managing Investment Risk in Volatile Markets (PDF)
• 11/05/2007
  The Fed Eases Again in the Wake of Market Turbulence (PDF)
• 10/22/2007
  Third Quarter 2007 Developments (PDF)
• 10/15/2007
  Nixing the VIX : Volatility Returns (PDF)
• 10/08/2007
  Update on China (PDF)
• 10/01/2007
  What Do the Fed's Recent Rate Cuts Mean? (PDF)
• 09/24/2007
  What's up with the Fed (PDF)
• 09/17/2007
  Understanding High-Yield Bonds (PDF)
• 09/10/2007
  Strategy of a Long-Term Investor in a Time of Risk Re-Discovery (PDF)
• 08/21/2007
  TIAA-CREF Wins 3 TOBYs for Building Management Excellence (PDF)
• 08/20/2007
  Markets Repricing Risks Globally (PDF)
• 08/13/2007
  Giving Markets Credit (PDF)
• 08/06/2007
  Commercial Real Estate Markets: Overview and Update (PDF)
• 07/30/2007
  The Private Equity Game: Fad or Fundamental? (PDF)
• 07/24/2007
  Quarterly Market Monitor Second Quarter 2007 Economic Review (PDF)
• 07/16/2007
  International Investing Today (PDF)
• 07/09/2007
  Do Hedge Funds Hedge? (PDF)
• 06/25/2007
  What a Further Downdraft in Housing Could Mean to the Economy and Financial Markets (PDF)
• 06/18/2007
  The Markets Perform (PDF)
• 06/11/2007
  A New Yield Curve (PDF)
• 06/04/2007
  Is Your Portfolio Efficient? (PDF)
• 05/21/2007
  How Many Dollars Does it Take to Buy a Pound? (PDF)
• 05/14/2007
  Check Your Asset Allocation Seatbelt, Again (PDF)
• 05/07/2007
  Credit Market Developments: Looking for Returns in More Risky Places (PDF)
• 04/30/2007
  Real Estate Investment Performance: Special Forces Wane (PDF)
• 04/23/2007
  First quarter 2007 Economic Review (PDF)
• 04/16/2007
  Pedaling into Lifecycle Funds (PDF)
• 04/09/2007
  Subbing Out the Housing Market (PDF)
• 04/02/2007
  India's Star has Risen and will Continue to Burn Brightly (PDF)
• 03/26/2007
  More of the same from the Fed, but...with a Twist (PDF)
• 03/19/2007
  China's Economy Continues to Roar Along, but Inflation Remains Low (PDF)
• 03/12/2007
  Monte Carlo is Not Just a Casino in Monaco (PDF)
• 03/05/2007
  Socially Screened Investing: Combining Competitive Return Potential with Investors' Values (PDF)
• 02/26/2007
  What Foreign Exchange Rate Movements may mean to the Economy and your Investments (PDF)
• 02/12/2007
  Commercial Real Estate's Day in the Sun (PDF)
• 02/05/2007
  Why Inflation-Linked Bonds? (PDF)
• 01/29/2007
  Investing in the Middle (PDF)
• 01/22/2007
  Quarterly Market Monitor Fourth Quarter 2006 Economic Review (PDF)
• 01/08/2007
  Investing by the Numbers (PDF)
• 12/18/2006
  Interest Rates and the TIAA Payout Dividends (PDF)
• 12/11/2006
  On Advice (PDF)
• 12/04/2006
  Building Blocks and Structured Products (PDF)
• 11/27/2006
  Olive Presses and Jet Fuel: Options and Other Derivatives (PDF)
• 11/20/2006
  Top-Down Versus Bottom-Up Investing (PDF)
• 11/13/2006
  Has the Housing Bubble Burst? (PDF)
• 11/06/2006
  Will Oil Prices Float Higher in Cooler Economic Waters? (PDF)
• 10/30/2006
  Sowing the Seeds to Lower Interest Rates (PDF)
• 10/24/2006
  Q3 2006 Developments (PDF)
• 10/16/2006
  What's Your Risk-Adjusted Return Ratio? (PDF)
• 10/09/2006
  Investing with Style (PDF)
• 09/25/2006
  Valuing China (PDF)
• 09/18/2006
  A Common Fallacy of Investing (PDF)
• 09/11/2006
  Emerging Markets as an Investment Idea (PDF)
• 08/28/2006
  As You Save, So Shall You Reap (PDF)
• 08/14/2006
  Gliding - or tumbling - down the yield curve? (PDF)
• 08/07/2006
  Pension Reform Passes Congress (PDF)
• 07/31/2006
  Turning Down a Free Lunch (PDF)
• 07/24/2006
  Risk versus Uncertainty in the Middle East (PDF)
• 07/17/2006
  It's all Greek to Me (PDF)
• 07/10/2006
  More is Less (PDF)
• 06/26/2006
  The Fed Giveth and the Fed Taketh Away (PDF)