The large suitcases are being dusted off in anticipation of a much more affordable summer vacation in Europe this year. Whereas the avid traveler, knowingly or not, can embrace the policy stance by the European Central Bank (ECB), having resulted...
Investors are loss averse, meaning they put more weight on losses than gains when they consider risky prospects, said Daniel Kahneman, Princeton University professor, at the IMCA 2015 New York Consultants Conference. So how much are investors wil...
It’s no secret that investors have been disappointed by the first wave of alternative mutual funds that populated the market in recent years. Many traditional hedge fund providers and traditional mutual fund firms struggled to deliver...
Beer and skittles in Belgian and Dutch stocks?
By Suzanne Barlyn
(Reuters) - In April 2011, two years before their prices sank, a slew of bond funds that were being sold by UBS’s Puerto Rico arm appeared to its brokers to be such risky investments that they balked at promoting them to their ...