Buying bonds for safety, when so many stocks are yielding such attractive dividends, is a losing strategy: Ave Maria manager.
Last week, the S&P 500 pulled back by less than 2% - certainly not sufficient to clear the overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising-yields syndrome that we observe in the market, but enough to bring our estimate of S&P 500 10-year total returns from an expected 3.06% to an expected 3.25%.
If ever there was a time to embrace investments in alternatives, this is it.
Scottrade is celebrating the first birthday of its FocusShares exchange-traded funds with a big marketing push.
A team that manages three mutual funds for Milwaukee-based Artisan Partners LP was named 2011 domestic stock manager of the year by Morningstar Inc.
The uncertainty in Europe has pushed the Forester Value Fund Ticker:(FVALX) into a defensive mode, but that's far from sitting on the sidelines, according to Tom Forester.
While they wait for interest rates to rise and a chance to reinvest for greater yield, advisers remain parked in short-duration, high-quality fixed-income instruments.
Despite the generally dismal performance of alternative investment funds, investors continued to pour money into them in 2011
A new study shows that correlations between many so-called “risk-on assets” have risen dramatically over the last decade.
Last year's stock market volatility has taken its toll: Financial advisers are a lot more skittish about equities now than they were at the start of 2011.
New fund likely to attract price-conscious clients; 'seminal moment'
State and local governments not nearly out of the woods, analyst says
Ratings cuts of two or more notches are expected to pick up over the summer as agencies review their methodologies
Data shows investment managers embracing passive funds with a passion; low fees a big draw
