Closed-end funds are trading at discounts not seen in more than a decade, giving savvy investors plenty of opportunity to snap up a portfolio of securities for less than what those investments are actually worth.
One of the great ironies of the market cataclysm is that investors stuck with auction rate securities — among the earliest victims of the global credit freeze — are now enjoying some of the fattest returns.
It is highly unlikely that the SEC will tell Congress that "mark-to-market" accounting should be suspended or scrapped when it finishes its 90-day study of the practice, according to industry observers.
The nation's faltering economy is forcing many parents to put off saving money for their kids' college education.
Powerful House Democrats are eyeing proposals to overhaul the nation's $3 trillion 401(k) system, including the elimination of most of the $80 billion in annual tax breaks that 401(k) investors receive.
Target date funds were hammered in the third quarter and fared worse then the S&P 500 because of poor performance from international stocks.
From a technology standpoint, brokers at Bank of America Corp. are sitting pretty.
Those who are fuzzy about how the stock market works can now learn the fundamentals of investing by relating it to sports.
Wirehouse representatives have been on tenterhooks since last week, awaiting the fate of their parent companies — while at the same time trying to deal with the market meltdown.
The Charles Schwab Corp. short-term-bond fund that blew up this year because of its exposure to mortgage-backed securities is now costing the firm as a result of significant legal losses.
