Investing for retirement can be problematic for professionals in partnerships or other types of closely held firms. Yes, that includes lawyers in law firms. These individuals tend to spend their early careers focused on building their business. By...

Last year ETFs, which are designed to track and mimic index returns, missed their targets by an average 1.25 percentage points.

Logic dictates that valuation experts assume that cash is worth its face value in majority interest or control scenarios. And that assumption makes sense: In such instances, control of a company provides access to and control over the assets...

Dr. Marc Faber, who predicted the 1987 crash and the recent financial crisis, is predictably gloomy. Buy farmland, gold and head into the country to avoid a "dirty" war, he told a conference. For more, please go to VonAldo.com, the blog of...