If you believe in the “politicians-are-idiots” theory, you’ll love gridlock. After all, the economy and stocks tend to do better under divided government.

The estate and generation-skipping transfer (GST) tax will reappear in 2011. For some insureds and the trustees of their irrevocable life insurance trusts (ILITs), the reinstatement of the estate and GST tax laws in 2011 should have little impact...

It's not news that individual retirement account owners must withdraw required minimum distributions (RMDs) from their IRAs after reaching age 70, or that beneficiaries must make similar withdrawals. But it was news when, in 2009, Congress granted...

One reason apartment REIT executives remain so bullish about an imminent recovery in rents and net operating income has everything to do with the difference between previous downturns and the current one: This time around the sector doesn't have a...

Africa is the new India, or something like that.

Only two real estate investment trusts (REITs) still exist from the original 1960s vintage, and both have stuck firmly to a well-defined geographic focus.