Investors shifted record amounts out of U.S. stock funds and into bonds in seven-day period ended Feb. 5, while withdrawing money from emerging-market equities for a 15th straight week.
After a rocky first month of the year and a downright awful start to February, one could be forgiven for wondering whether the stock market is correcting or beginning a longer-term slide. Advisors Asset Management's Scott Colyer takes a look at the bearish case and the bullish case.
Natural-gas prices spike up, but experts warn that opportunity is only short-term.
The next 12 months look promising across the energy efficiency, renewable energy, water and waste recovery sectors, buoyed by a broad-based cyclical recovery from the deepest downturn in living memory.
Advisers could benefit as retail investors load up on alts.
Six new liquid alternatives funds are part of firm's effort to help advisers handle risk.
Will launch two '40 Act funds to lure financial adviser business
Nicholas Schorsch's RCS Capital acquires liquid alts firm Hatteras Funds, giving the real estate mogul the potential to widen the distribution of his growing lineup of investment products.
Fund's go-anywhere mandate may be its silver lining.
Proposed rule would require brokers to factor in fees and commissions when listing share prices on client account statements; if approved by the SEC, rule change would do away with the $10-a-share listing price.
Inland American Real Estate Trust, the largest nontraded REIT with $9.5 billion in assets, may soon be in line for a merger or listing of its shares, a move dubbed a “liquidity event” in the business. <i>(Don't miss: <a href="//www.investmentnews.com/article/20131227/FREE/131229967"" target=""_blank"" rel="noopener noreferrer">Will the 2013 banner year last through 2014?</a>)</i>
Pimco's Bill Gross is recommending investors focus on shorter-duration debt. Why? More important than the upcoming jobs report, the slow pace of inflation indicates the Fed will keep its benchmark interest rate at or close to zero.
Friday's menu: All eyes on the jobs report as investors pull cash from stocks, what the frigid winter in the U.S. could wreak, what is Apple up to (aside from buying back its stock) and at long last, the Winter Olympics in Sochi begin.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> What's with the Oracle of Omaha's hedge fund bet? Plus: Friday's freaky jobs report preview, public pensions gained 16% last year, Twitter earnings raise concerns, and investing in income inequality.
Dealing with fractional shares proved to be tricky, but firm thinks it has the problem solved.
Some optimistic, others skeptical about plan to scrap the automatic per-share value of $10.
Can both spouses file and suspend their benefits?
The biggest exchange-traded fund tracking the $3.7 trillion municipal bond market is selling at the highest premium to the value of its assets since May, an early sign that local debt may avoid a second year of losses.
