Investors are skittish about real estate investments due to the beating that the sector has taken over the past few years, but alternative-investment managers say that real estate has some features that make it worth another look
Apparently, the GOP is not so keen on the SEC's plan to let the net asset value of money market funds drift, rather than remain at a constant $1 per share. Fund firms are no doubt happy to hear it.
Unless a 5-basis-point yield somehow sounds like a good deal, it might be time to start looking beyond the basic money market mutual fund
McNabb opposes excess capital requirements or floating rate NAV; 'will disappear'
Morningstar Inc. has launched the first of its forward-looking mutual fund ratings for 350 U.S. funds, which it contends will help investors evaluate the fund's future performance.
State regulators have signaled a push for recalculating reserve requirements on a certain type of universal-life insurance, a change that could lead to higher costs for policyholders, as well as fewer insurers' selling the product
Legislation introduced last week that would impose a federal tax on financial transactions may be doomed as a stand-alone bill, but proponents say that it should be included in any broad deficit-reduction proposal
Has hired six new external wholesalers, bringing its roster to 54, and it expects to have 60 by the end of the year.
Pimco's Bill Gross said the additional easing programs hinted at by Federal Reserve officials will push yields on longer-term Treasuries higher
Earn over $200,000? If so, President Obama's proposed cut to the municipal bond tax exemption could hit your wallet hard.
Fidelity Investments has named Jeffrey S. Feingold to run the $17.4 billion Magellan Fund, replacing Harry Lange, who oversaw a two-thirds decline in assets in what was once the largest U.S. mutual fund
White House seeks to limit interest income that can be sheltered; states, cities already lining up against proposal
Now that the National Football League's lockout is history, Putnam Investments has teamed up with the New England Patriots in a new marketing arrangement.
The Treasury Department's Federal Insurance Office last week said that it is looking for public comments focusing specifically on systemic risk as part of a report on modernizing insurance regulations
In what seems to be an about-face, wirehouses are embracing fixed indexed annuities, which offer investors a guaranteed-minimum return and the opportunity to partake in stock market gains
As sponsors of nontraded real estate investment trusts continue their full-court press on sales, some independent broker-dealers are dialing back their level of risk and have cut back, or are considering reducing, the number of REIT products they allow their representatives to sell
First, and most important, a large part of the late summer sell-off was precipitated by a growing belief that the United States and the global economy were about to enter another recession.
Apparently, hedge funds are a hit with financial advisers who run family offices
Frank A. Barbera Jr., co-portfolio manager of the Sierra Core Retirement Fund, tracks a staggering number of jobs reports and other economic indicators
