Rising interest rates? Greece? Today's markets present a volatile picture for fixed-income investors. Here's advice on how to navigate it all.
REM and other mortgage REIT ETFs are offering juicy yields but those yields are already getting squeezed as short-term interest rates rise in anticipation of a rate increase from the Federal Reserve.
In its sales turnaround, third largest U.S. fund company relies on retention of existing advisers and lower-cost share classes.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: China could stand in the way, as their market struggles create a risk of tightening into a slowing global economy.
The potential benefits &mdash; and pitfalls &mdash; of using alternatives to diversify a portfolio focused on capital preservation.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Investors are really starting to sock money away for retirement, which is good news for advisers.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> The banker was caught sharing insider information with his dad, who then used golf jargon to try and disguise the scheme.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: A modest change in employment data won't change the Fed's course.
Withdrawals mark 27th-straight month of outflows but pace continues to slow.
Emerging stock markets have been flat over past six years &mdash; risks are commodity rout, China slowing and higher U.S. rates.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> China's stock market rout is being described as just the beginning, with some big moves still to come.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: If 13 weeks of falling energy-stock prices has you looking for an entry point, hold your fire: The sector is still very pricey.
Investors shrugged off worries about China and Greece to send the S&P 500 index up 2% last month to its biggest monthly gain since February as most companies reported better-than-expected profits.
A trend toward an old strategy of gaming the market by investing in stocks just before they are added to popular indexes such as the S&P 500 that, by definition, index funds must track has become popular again. And it can be costly to investors.
REIT sponsor controlled by Nicholas Schorsch has its first liquidity event of the year, selling shares of Global Net Lease Inc. on the New York Stock Exchange.
Advisers need to address environmental issues and how they will affect investments
Research finds that the overall level of closed-end fund discounts trumps interest rate changes.
While little has been spared in the energy-securities selloff &mdash; oil, junk bonds and even Chinese equities have been hit &mdash; smaller stocks have been the worst off.
Advisers say the presidential hopeful and real estate mogul's investments reveal a scattered approach to money management. <i>(See <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/gallery/20150723/FREE/723009998/PH"" target=""_blank"" rel="noopener">the top five fund companies holding Mr. Trump's money</a>.)</i>
Expense ratios to be cut between 39% and 44% for new and existing shareholders through October 2017.
