How useful are analysts' recommendations? The argument has been raging for years. There have been numerous academic studies and even actual matches between and real-life stock pickers remember the Wall Street Journal's dartboard contest, in which...
As a financial advisor, it makes sense to help your clients with anything related to their investments. That could include helping them to get a slice of the payout from class actions against companies being sued for crooked accounting and other...
It wasn't that long ago when a client would suggest a $5 stock and a broker would shake his head in disbelief and reply, Why would you want to take a chance on a penny stock? Today, chances are you'd recognize at least a few penny stocks. After...
These days, Anthony Soslow often finds himself facing a problem most reps haven't faced since clients were clamoring for hot IPOs back in the heady years of the last millennium. When Soslow, president of Global Capital Management, a financial...
On Aug. 14, as part of the government's new get-tough policy on deceptive corporate accounting, the CEOs and CFOs of 974 of the country's largest public companies had to personally swear that their financial documents were accurate. But if you...
Is it time to get your clients back into telecom? If the very word still gives you the jitters, that's understandable. No sector has caused so much pain to so many investors. Some $2 trillion in market capitalization has been lost over the last...
What did they know and when did they know it? That's the question being asked by government regulators about corporate insiders who sold massive amounts of stock. The answer can help distinguish between simple profit-taking and outright fraud. To...
In nearly 10 years, demand for exchange traded funds has grown from nearly nothing to three-quarters of a trillion dollars a year. Impressive? Of course. Still, some financial services executives see ETFs as a disappointment. Consider this: From...
