President Obama was off-base to castigate the Chrysler secured debt holders who held out against the proposed deal to rescue Chrysler LLC.
As Congress prepares to tighten financial regulation to correct weaknesses revealed by the mortgage collapse, the debate over who should regulate those who give in-vestment advice, including financial planners,
Some dividends aren't dividends at all. Sometimes they are a distribution known as a return of capital, which are actually returns <i>of </i>an investment instead of returns <i>on </i>an investment.
It happens all too often these days. You pick up the phone and there is an angry client on the other end. The market has dropped yet again. More money disappeared. Emotions are at the boiling point. How do you handle it?
Two legal cases that will be decided by courts this year may significantly affect the mutual fund and investment advisory industries.
Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke and his Fed colleagues must begin to address investors' concerns about inflation in more concrete terms than he did in his speech at Morehouse College in Atlanta last week.
Investor's confidence in the stock and bond markets has been shaken, not just by economic weakness but also by the feeling that professional speculators are using tools not available to ordinary investors to plunder the markets.
April is National Financial Literacy Month, and it couldn't arrive at a better time for Americans who can't answer the most basic questions concerning personal finance.
Two important lessons of the current bear market are that stocks don't always outperform bonds over significant time periods and that investors can't assume a 10% annual return over the long run.
The Obama administration and Congress should immediately halt any effort to assess a punitive tax on bonuses paid this year by companies that received bailout funds from the Troubled Asset Relief Program.
