PowerShares QQQ (QQQ) has been racing ahead. During the past five years ending March, the ETF has returned 7 percent annually, outdoing the average large growth mutual fund by 4 percentage points, according to Morningstar. Investors have taken...
Advisors are expecting the summer doldrums to kick in for the stock market and the economy over the next few months, according to Rydex|SGI’s Advisor Confidence Index. The index, which surveys 150 RIAs on their views of the U.S. economy and...
Since the financial crisis of 2008, global markets have been surprisingly resilient. Investors who continued to follow disciplined strategies have recovered much of their losses, if not their confidence. Professional advisors have all worked hard...
Corporations around the world responded aggressively to the global recession and financial crisis, clamping down on spending and hoarding massive piles of cash. In the United States, where cost-cutting was especially dramatic, nonfinancial firms...
The last decade has seen both the tech wreck and the housing bubble burst, leaving greater skepticism about financial institutions and a deeper interest in identifying “bubbles” amongst both the professional and investing public...
Younger investors, we were told, lost their taste for equities after getting beaten up by two recessions in the past 10 years. But new data from Vanguard suggest that Gen Y's aversion to risk may be overstated. The company found that in the...
The tortoise is catching up to the hare. According to a new report by Strategic Insight, small fry money managers are making significant in-roads into the fund marketplace, with 20 of the 25 fastest-growing fund firms having less than $5 billion...
As more wealth managers and multi-family offices outsource their investment decisions to third party asset managers, these assets managers are coming under greater scrutiny—and not just for their investment performance...
Nearly two-thirds of respondents (64 percent) to an online survey of investors conducted this spring by National Real Estate Investor and Marcus & Millichap plan to to boost the size of their commercial real estate portfolios over the next 12...
