Equities

The GameStop-Robinhood saga is a distraction from what’s really wrong with mainstream investing in America.

GameStop has soared during January but is under owned by ETFs given its more than $20 billion market capitalization. Just 63 funds own a position in the company.

The looming threat for Gensler is that the good times could end on his watch, triggering a crash that hits retail investors who’ve contributed to the boom particularly hard.

The SEC announced it is monitoring the volatility in the options and equities markets.

The firm said high volume may have curtailed access to its mobile app and urged clients to use its other platforms.

Direct indexing can improve after-tax returns of certain active strategies, not just passive ones.

Even day traders and people who prefer set-and-forget index fund investments have come to realize that there’s a lot more components involved in building wealth.

With so many people out of work or working from home, the penny stock fervor is not going away anytime soon.

Using data directly from Robinhood, researchers found that users overwhelmingly favor thematic ETFs over broad-based products.

Historically, having one party in charge of the House, Senate and presidency has coincided with a 9.1% annual return for the S&P 500 going back to 1950.