The man with the plan.
In his second day as CEO of American Realty Capital Properties, Glenn Rufrano met with stock analysts to set a timeline for getting the company past last year’s accounting troubles. Rufrano said he first needed to s...
It's a two-way street.
The penchant for passive over active investment management hasn’t been as pronounced among defined contribution plan sponsors; 57 percent of multi-national companies have a mix of active and passive strategies in the...
What's in a name?
In new research from Cerulli Associates, the analytics firm offered up “eRIA” as an alternative term to “robo-advisor” for automated investment advice software. Whatever the advisory industry decides to call them, Cerulli...
They have a plan.
The National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals released the “Hispanic Wealth Project Blueprint” on Tuesday, a 10-year plan to triple the wealth of Hispanic households in the U.S. to $2 trillion. According ...
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Ric Edelman’s “exponential technology” strategy for investment management is now a BlackRock ETF. The new iShares Exponential Technologies ETF (nysearca:XT) began with the Edelman F...
Clear as mud.
After topping $2 trillion in U.S. assets, the ETF market still remains a mystery to many investors. In a recent survey by Fidelity and BlackRock, less than one-third (32 percent) of individual investors currently own ETFs in ...
The National Endowment for Financial Education and the Financial Planning Association have launched a tournament bracket of their own—to help investors and consumers determine their top four financial priorities. The groups also had financial...
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One week after the accidental death of the author of best-selling book The Millionaire Next Door, Helaine Olen writes in The Baffler that the object of the book – a self-made s...
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March is historically a poor month for gold, which is bad sign for the commodity, since it's already down 1.6 percent year-to-date, writes Barry Ritholtz on Bloomber...
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Pax Ellevate Management is encouraging the companies in its Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Index Fund (PXWEX) to sign onto the Women’s Empowerment Principles, a joint initiative of the United ...
