New York has earned the dubious honor of being the nation's leader in mortgage fraud last year, according to a report from the LexisNexis Mortgage Asset Research Institute.
While executives of The Goldman Sachs Group Inc. were getting grilled on Capitol Hill about deals involving mortgage-related securities, another division of the company quietly made headlines of a different sort.
The Treasury market is trading in a narrow range Thursday as investors balance European debt concerns with signs of an improving U.S. economy.
Mohamed El-Erian says that today's nonfarm payrolls report demonstrates a “tug of war” between cyclical and structural factors. His take? The second half of 2010 will be more important that the first
Banks with strong balance sheets are flying lazy circles over weaker rivals. And with 700 banks on the FDIC's worry list, there's plenty of stragglers to go after
The professor of economics at Yale University, and the author of "Irrational Exuberance" sits down with WealthTrack's Consuelo Mack.
Count mutual funds and their investors among the big losers in the legal battle between the SEC and The Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s broker-dealer unit.
A handful of big fund companies are revamping their target date offerings in hopes of limiting risk — and preventing another major blowup.
Whenever the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System decides to start raising interest rates, investors should look to the technology and health care sectors as the biggest likely beneficiaries, according to new research from Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC.
If combatants in the debate over target date fund investment approaches thought that Morningstar Inc. could provide a tiebreaker, they were out of luck.
Uri Landesman, head of global growth at ING Investment Management Americas, has moved over to the hedge fund arena as president of Platinum Partners LP, a $500 million hedge fund boutique.
Higher federal taxes, coupled with a rising stock market, threaten to hit U.S. fund shareholders particularly hard.
Mutual funds are a cornerstone of retirement planning. Yet they're widely misunderstood.
Stephen Roseman has introduced the Thesis Flexible Fund, which aims to providers investors and advisers that want a hedge-fund-like investment but also the liquidity of a mutual fund
With interest rates at historic lows and no place to go but up, it behooves investors to have a strategy in place ahead of a rate hike cycle that is likely to begin this year.
Build America Bonds were introduced in April 2009 to create jobs and to help municipalities offset borrowing costs with a 35 percent direct subsidy from the U.S. Treasury.
Managers of target date funds are adding commodities to their portfolio mixes, but experts wonder whether the moves are substantive or just window dressing.
Billionaire hedge-fund manager John Paulson, whose $32 billion firm has been betting on an economic recovery by 2012, has pared bullish bets across his funds, according to a person briefed on the investments.
This large-cap growth fund's investment approach, seeking high-quality companies that are growing their near-term earnings faster than the market and trading at a discount to their intrinsic value, has been well executed.
