Risks of the strategy can be great the returns even greater.
Despite worries over valuations — and the potential for a correction — the longer-term outlook for stocks is solid. As long as the global economic recovery continues to expand.
Future cost-of-living adjustments applied to larger base benefit
Financial planners share their concerns and actions for mitigating a slow-growth economy and the general trend of wage stagnation.
While the differences between registered investment advisers and the independent broker-dealers are certainly real, all of us in this industry benefit when we pull together to represent our common interests in our interactions with regulators, according to FSI's Dale Brown.
In seeking to stop Mohamed El-Erian from leaving Pimco, Bill Gross told him 'hell no.' It didn't work and now Pimco must revisit its succession plan as its struggle to move beyond bonds continues.
Financial planning practices are on a collision course with skyrocketing retirement health care costs, which could lead to higher-than-expected health care costs during retirement.
Retail investors are buying options at historic rates, and using them more strategically.
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BlackRock Frontiers Investment Trust Plc, a $297 million frontier markets equity fund, said it returned 33% last year and expects attractive investment opportunities this year including initial public offerings.
International investors are the most upbeat about the global economy than at any time in almost five years, buoyed by the U.S.-led revival of industrial nations, according to the Bloomberg Global Poll.
Bond King Bill Gross will remain as chief investment officer, parent Allianz says.
Last year's roaring stock market helped IBD bellwether LPL Financial post record results. The company expects commission revenue from sales of alternative investments such as nontraded REITs to dip from the elevated levels of 2013 but remain solid.
