The curious thing about a bubble is, when it bursts, you can't believe people actually behaved the way they did. (Remember, in the late 1990s, backing up the truck and buying the QQQQ for clients? Nah, not you.) Consider what a sweet temptation...

About the current credit market turmoil, Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said in early September, The behavior in what we are observing in the last seven weeks is identical in many respects to what we saw in 1998, what we saw in the...

Over the past five years, institutional investors have taken quite a shine to a type of fund that nobody quite knows what to call. At last count, pensions and endowments had committed some $30 billion to these so-called short extension, or...

Financial stocks have understandably led the market down during the recent credit-related correction. But the group has also recently led in another area: insider buying. In July and August, executives and directors in this much-beleaguered sector...

Millions of investors have piled into exchange-traded funds (ETFs) over the past decade. Assets in the funds have grown from $65 billion in 2000 to $488 billion today, according to the Investment Company Institute, the mutual fund trade group...

Don't call Mark Beloyan a penny stock tout. Sure, Beloyan speculates in low-priced securities. And, yes, his book is built around trading and finding retail investors who want to make a bet on the shares of companies that are more or less still in...

Those darn SAT scores will always come back to haunt you especially if you're a hedge fund manager. At least according to the findings of a recent study titled Investing in Talents: Manager Characteristics and Hedge Fund Performances. The...

An investigation of 110 investment firms was made public today at a Senior Summit held by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC and the Financial Industry Regulation Authority (FINRA) conducted a year-long examination (April 2006...

For decades, investors and academics alike have sought the magic bullet, the one data point that would predict the future performance of mutual funds. Hundreds of studies looked at a variety of variables including past performance, expense ratio...