Exchange traded funds are becoming a must-have for individual investors, but few of them know exactly what they are, how they work or what makes them different from their mutual fund cousins, advisers observed.
It would seem that after the latest sell-off, financial services stocks would be a screaming "buy" for most investors.
Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Services Inc.'s acquisition last week of Investacorp Inc., could position the latter to be more active in recruiting representatives and financial advisers, as well as potentially buying smaller firms.
While 401(k) investors' choices of mutual funds vary widely, one element of concern seems to be constant: cost.
Investors continue to bail as Harry W. Lange celebrates his two-year anniversary as the manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund on Wednesday, although it's clear that the fund's performance is on the mend.
More mutual funds are being developed that offer managed payouts designed to give investors a steady stream of income.
When the Federal Reserve Board cut the discount and federal funds rates by 0.5 percentage points Sept. 18, some critics charged that Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke and his colleagues had acted too quickly.
Just 23% of women in a recently released survey said that they were confident in their ability to retire with a lifestyle that they considered comfortable.
Quantitative investment strategies that maintain consistent long and short exposures, commonly known as 130/30s, are hot.
Brokerage firm advisers are offering investors fewer mutual funds because the compliance burden of putting clients into new funds are too onerous, according to a report by Westwood, Mass.-based Hobson & Co.
