Following three years of material underperformance relative to U.S. equities, the MSCI EM benchmark has posted a total return of 16 percent YTD. Clearly the bottoming of both oil prices (and much of the commodity complex) and domestic growth...

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Negative ESG screening is old hat. Green Alpha Advisors starts with a sustainability model, then finds companies that fit it.

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Investment gains were missing in action last week for all the major asset classes.

Charles Schwab Investment Management announced the launch of a series of index-based target date mutual funds on Thursday that the asset manager says are the lowest-cost target date mutual funds available to employer-sponsored retirement...