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 ...

As the U.S. economy maintains its momentum and with the euro zone showing signs of improvement, all eyes are now on the Fed’s next move on rates

There's a happy medium in the financial services industry between the wirehouses and independents--regional brokerages, which have been gaining in advisors and competing more with the RIA channel in the past three years. The reasons, according ...

Price increases in NYC real estate (and London, for that matter) continue to be driven by a strong influx of foreign money and the ultra-wealthy.