Equities

Just throw money at it. | miriam-doerr/iStock/Thinkstock Equity crowdfunding is expected to grow in 2016, but by how much? A new report from Juniper Research expects investments in the technology sector via crowdfunding to increase sevenfo...

Legg Mason DBI portfolios debut during deep sell-off.

This time is different. | Copyright Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images George Soros spoke at an Asian investment conference yesterday and told the crowd the current market meltdown reminded him of 2008, on the eve of the worst recession in dec...

Continued weakness in oil and basic materials will probably cap the potential for a sharp rally.

Hightower has made something of an art form out of the animated whiteboard drawing - using the technique in a few videos to help (literally) illustrate what they do. Its latest video takes the innocuous cartoon format and sharpens it into a d...

Evidence is mounting that 2016 will prove happier than 2015 for investors.

Buy, buy, buy. | Copyright Joe Raedle, Getty Images The stock market on the whole may be struggling to start 2016, but that's not the case for gun manufacturers. Gun stocks gained 78 percent in 2015, according to USA Today, compared to the...

You hear time and time again that when it comes to investing in actively managed funds, the past is no guarantee of the future, and investors should never chase performance, because last year's best managers often underwhelm in the following year...

A new crop of broker/dealers and funding portals are forming to capitalize on new equity crowdfunding rules. But will there be a market?