Financial advisors say their optimism over the state of the economy and the future of the equity markets, while still positive, has waned in the past month.

Contrarian funds should not get overlooked in raging bull markets. Long-term investors profit from the out-of-step strategies.

As of the beginning of February, we have seen just four exchange traded products with announced and/or actual closings for the year, significantly below the annualized levels of the most recent years. While the trend of these recent years...

One of the big stories in the net lease REIT sector is the merger between the publicly traded American Realty Capital Properties (NASDAQ: ARCP) and Cole Real Estate Investments (NYSE: COLE). The merger, which closed this month, creates one...

Although rising interest rates have had a limited impact on the commercial real estate market overall, one casualty of the increases has been publicly traded REITs. A recent report from SNL Financial, a Charlottesville, Va.-based...

This week FINRA’s Board of Directors authorized FINRA to seek comment on a proposed rule that would require firms to “include a readily apparent reference and link to BrokerCheck” on their websites.  BrokerCheck is a...