In October, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that the private retirement plans of Americans including 401(k) and IRA accounts dropped by some $2 trillion, or 20 percent in the 15 months ending September 30. Yes, those are big, scary...
As nervous retail investors, spooked by Wall Street's fading fortunes, started seeking a safer haven for their money in recent months and the potential to juice returns with seemingly no downside risk many were lured by offers of principal...
In the first case of its kind, the SEC announced today that it has charged two individual financial advisors with fraud related to the sale of more than $1 billion in auction-rate securities.
Wine might emerge as a bona fide alternative asset class. Established in 2004, the London International Vinters Exchange Ltd. (aka the Live-ex index) tracks the price movements of 100 fine wines and is calculated monthly. Over the first six months...
There is an old saying that chartists have: The trend will continue until it ends. Yes, it seems silly, even stupid. But, if you are a technician trying to divine future prices from past price movements and trading volume that saying is probably...
Not satisfied with having ushered in a new era of efficient, low cost, investment-savvy pooled investment products, ETF issuers insist on trying to reengineer their own (already pretty darn good) invention.
You'll usually find grandparents are a willing audience, especially if you first ask them to tell you about their grandchildren, and listen patiently for the next 90 minutes. But for those grandparents with several million or more in net worth, a...
You'd think the U.S. dollar had bitten the dust from all the breathless reporting of its savaging in the foreign exchange market. From the headlines, you'd think the world was selling dollars in 2008 en masse. But it's been worse. Consider that...