Cern Basher won't even consider mutual funds if the portfolio managers don't have their own money invested in them, and he doesn't want to see merely a few hundred dollars in there
Famed fund managers heavily invested in financials; right now, not so good
Treasury bond yields are plunging to levels seen in the 1950s as concern a two-year recovery in the world's largest economy is stalling causes investors to flee stock and debt markets.
Ten-year notes returned 1.83% in July; 'market saw through the debate'
U.S. exchange-traded funds took in $56.3 billion for the first half of this year, an increase of more than 50.9% from the first half of 2010, according to State Street Global Advisors' mid-year SPDR outlook.
After avoiding the pitfalls of disastrous Regulation D deals over the past decade, Commonwealth Financial Network and LPL Financial LLC are contending with potential fallout from a real estate private placement that faces pressure from its creditors
As exchange-traded funds grow in popularity, more financial advisers are using model ETF portfolios as a low-cost way of managing their clients' money
Plosser sees central bank raising interest on fed funds before mid-2013; 'inappropriate policy at inappropriate time'
S&P's single-notch lowering of the U.S. sovereign debt rating was seen as a big blow to the Treasury market. Instead, worries about default on government debt has investors clamoring for -- yep -- government debt. The result? In an auction this week, taxpayers saved $647M.
Global equities funds saw $3.5 in net outflows
Warren Buffett roundly disagrees with S&P's lowering of Uncle Sam's credit rating, stating that the United States deserves 'quadruple A' status.
Commonwealth Financial Network and LPL Financial LLC are contending with potential fallout from a real estate private placement they sold that faces pressure from its creditors.
U.S. two-year note yields increased from a record low yesterday as the Labor Department said the U.S. added 117,000 jobs, up from a revised 46,000 gain in June and compared with the 85,000 forecast in a Bloomberg News survey.
The state of Louisiana will collect about $1 million in a settlement with John Hancock Life Insurance Co. as part of a massive investigation into the insurer's payment of death benefits
The ten largest life insurers doing business in California are under the microscope over the way they handle dormant life insurance policies.
Florida's insurance cop is looking into whether insurers' alleged failure to deliver deceased clients' death benefits promptly may have boosted the companies' financials
Florida's insurance regulator is looking into whether insurers' alleged failure to deliver deceased clients' death benefits promptly may have had an impact on the companies' financial statements and reserves.
Van Hulzen Asset Management's new Iron Horse Fund will follow an options strategy that the $250 million shop has been applying in separate accounts for nearly a decade.
Sources say traders at Morgan Stanley lost tens of millions of dollars in a big wager on inflation. Apparently, the bank is still working to get out of the bets.
