Stocks are cheap, but clients should know what they are getting into.
Even though stock funds scored big gains in March, they're still trailing bonds for 2016.
Finra orders the firm to pay about $2.9 million to two investors in Puerto Rico closed-end municipal bond funds. Total claims top $1.1 billion.
Brazil, Russia, India and China were singled out as the investment theme of the new century, but they've fallen like bricks the past five years.
Shares in developing nations were on the brink of a bull market as oil rose and favorable shifts in central-bank policies supported riskier assets.
Competition from index funds could hold the death rate steady going forward.
The unexplained slump follows a similar drop for the Hang Seng Index in May.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Franklin Templeton and BlackRock are each making the case for a move into emerging market debt.
Dislocation among sectors, industries and securities, creates the perfect environment for alternative strategies.
A cartoonist's look at what happens when rates go negative.
Fund manager says central bankers are 'increasingly addled' as their low and negative-interest rate policies fail to produce sustainable growth.
After taking another five months to bottom out, stocks could take two years to regain their previous highs, according to one expert.
Andy Rothman, investment strategist for Matthews Asia, says China is a tough sell these days despite some misconceptions about the opportunities for investors.
Fund industry pushes more specialized access, strategies for an eventual turnaround in emerging markets.
American equities struggle to hold gain amid global share rise
The MSCI All-Country World Index's drop from a May record passed 19%, edging toward bear market territory.
Markets rallied around the world on the Bank of Japan's surprise move.
The firm joins Goldman, JP Morgan and John Hancock by jumping into the ETF space with passive strategies based on proprietary quantitative research.
Turnaround in sentiment comes amid signs central banks may be prepared to act
You may never have thought that your clients would thank you for putting them into bond funds – until now.
