Funds that employ alternative strategies — even those in the same general category — can perform drastically differently.
Carlos Hardenberg selected as new lead manager in effort to bolster performance, which has been subpar.
MSCI plans to add nearly two-dozen foreign-listed companies, including two of China's biggest, to its global indexes.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Just because Janet Yellen and the Fed are going to be raising interest rates soon doesn't mean there won't be investment opportunities.
When China sneezed last quarter, the world caught a cold but smart investors found opportunity.
Benchmark hugging will not benefit most investors, so advisers must look far and wide for opportunity.
Parallels between now and 1987 are thin at best
Allows institutional investors to add an initial increment of China A shares exposure to their emerging markets benchmarks.
Three allocation strategies that could let clients tap into the global infrastructure boom
Pimco, Fidelity and Capital Group are the biggest holders of Petrobras' 100-year bonds, which are down 15% since June, four times the average loss for emerging-market debt.
Only 10% in positive territory while at this time last year, 66% of ETFs were up.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Investors gave no love to emerging market economies in the third quarter, as they saw the biggest quarterly outflows since 2008.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> 'The decision' for Fed on interest rates could rock these 6 markets.
Money manager's view contrasts with some big hedge fund managers who see beginnings of bear market
Bold bets, market fears have investors heading for the exits despite longer-term outperformance.
<b>Breakfast with Benjamin:</b> Here's a new way to think about building a portfolio for your retired clients using the old bucket strategy. Three buckets for three timeframes
Jeffrey Gundlach's $48.2 billion DoubleLine Total Return Bond Fund returned 0.7% over the past month while his peers showed losses.
Investor claims pile up as the territory sinks in the downward spiral of a government debt crisis.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Nontraditional bond funds that sounded too good to be true are looking like a bust, so far.
They're less expensive than their U.S. counterparts and can lower portfolio volatility.
