The unprecedented seems to happen all too frequently in financial markets. Is there something wrong with the way financial advisors build their clients' portfolios?
Here's a story you can tell to clients who are fed up with the market. There's a frantic search under way in Israel for a mattress that's worth $1 million. According to the AP, a woman in Tel Aviv bought her mom a new mattress, taking the old one...
In recent years, plenty of investors poured into emerging market stock funds. The new shareholders hoped to profit from the boom in developing countries, such as China and Brazil. But their high hopes were dashed by the credit crisis. During the...
In 2001 and 2002, insurance companies began introducing the guaranteed withdrawal benefit, giving VA owners a guaranteed income stream. The current bear market is forcing insurance companies to cut benefits and to increase costs.
Much of the confusion about what an absolute-return portfolio is arises from the rather cavalier way that some of these funds are labeled. Many funds are advertised as absolute-return plays simply because of their low correlations to market...
If only financial institutions could invest as smartly as they contributed to Congressional and presidential campaigns, why, there would be no economic crisis at all
Yes, it's true that the commercial real estate industry is suffering from increasing vacancies, decreasing rents and declining property values. Call it a trifecta of bad news. Yet, for bottom-feeders er, contrarians this might be a good time to...
With markets collapsing last fall, Nicholas Rowe, a financial advisor with Focus Capital, a registered investment advisor in Bedford, New Hampshire that clears trades through Schwab Institutional, began buying inverse exchange-traded funds (ETFs)...
