Equities

It's been 56 weeks since the last 5 percent decline in the stock market.

Conventional wisdom says that as passive investment strategies grow, they would affect stock prices. The data shows otherwise.

Data is cheap and ubiquitous. Active investors need to read the human emotions driving the market, says Franklin Mutual's Peter Langerman.

By many standards, investors are as fat and happy as they have ever been

The dust is still settling from monetary policy makers across the globe.

Central-bank tightening isn’t deterring investors from China, Korea, Mexico and others.

Only U.S. equity funds recorded outflows.

In a perfect world, the Fed would wait for inflation to hit 2 percent. It could raise the interest rate before then.

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There are ways to access the asset class without investing directly in futures.