Equities

It pays, in many ways, to keep things simple.

We’re witnessing the convergence of technology, social media and financial services—in short, complete disruption of the investing industry.

Probably more than 70 percent of active money managers’ returns can be attributed to the portfolio manager’s use of factor tilts, or so called “smart beta” strategies, according to BlackRock managing director and former...

The next generation? | Comstock Images/Stockbyte/Thinkstock Financial advisors should fear not just the current iteration of robo advisors, but also what they could become, writes Russ Alan Prince for Forbes. He said that while robo adviso...

They're just like the rest of us. TD Ameritrade said millennials were invested heavily in individual stocks last year, representing 28 percent of new accounts opened at TD in 2015. Millennial investors really aren’t as different as some su...

Betterment CEO Jon Stein. Betterment for Business, the automated investing service’s foray into the 401(k) market, officially went live Wednesday with a group of 50 plan sponsors and participants. Boxed, a wholesale shopping app that signe...

Taking the leap into smart beta. OppenheimerFunds announced that it's diving into the world of smart beta with its new Factor Weighted ETFs. Securities are weighted on the basis of top line revenue, which OppenheimerFunds said more closely...

Keep it simple. Desperate times call for desperate measures. So complicated market environments call for complex investment strategies, right? At least that’s what investors (and asset managers) are hardwired to think, according to the la...

A further 10 percent decline is in the cards

It is always far better to make sound investments that have real staying power, and then put them away for as long as needed to harvest their value.