Despite a multitude of water shortages, options to invest in innovative technologies that address the problem remain limited.
Among U.S.-listed exchange-traded products, 10 “socially responsible” products account for only $1.14 billion, or just 0.06% of ETP assets.
Advisers can attract new clients if they keep abreast of the socially responsible investing trend.
Pandering move says plenty about the candidate and her economic sense.
<I>Breakfast with Benjamin:</I> Investing in China stocks is a scary proposition right now but there's an ETF that uses a smart approach. It's down, but not like the Shanghai market.
It looks like somebody got killed on this after-hours exchange-traded note trade. The lesson? Beware thinly traded securities with a bid/ask spread you could drive a truck through.
Top analysts in the sector see a bear market as investors pumped $10.5 billion into energy funds over the last year.
New research finds the firm that Bill Gross built, then left, lost some favor with advisers over the last year. <i>(Don't miss the <a href="http://www.investmentnews.com/gallery/20150720/FREE/720009999/PH" target="_blank">Top 10 most trusted mutual fund companies</a>.)</i>
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> We all know a rate hike is coming, and ignoring it is not a plan &mdash; so the time is now to look at bond allocations.
The disparity is especially important now because the bond market's outlook is key in helping the Federal Reserve to decide just how much interest rates will need to rise from rock-bottom levels.
With Janet Yellen widely expected to hold policy steady at this week's meeting, Fed watchers looking to the central bank's statement on Wednesday for clues on liftoff.
As investors hunt for yield and security, money-market fund managers detail their changes.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i>: Crashing commodity prices are real, and the result might be another delay to the Fed's rate hike.
Voya Financial Advisors has restricted sales of variable annuities for the second time in two months, as the brokerage firm faces increased pressure from regulators questioning the suitability of the products for retirement savers.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin:</i> Package delivery company UPS has warned that the U.S. economy appears to be slowing. That's bad news for the Fed and stock investors.
Plus all the latest data on equity ETFs' second quarter performance
High-yield-bond research leads manager to companies whose stocks are primed to rise.
Goldman Sachs chief executive Lloyd C. Blankfein says markets are poised for prolonged growth and will quickly move on after a jolt from the Federal Reserve's first interest-rate increase since 2006.
<b>Breakfast with Benjamin:</b> Despite still-tepid economic growth and few signs of inflation, Janet Yellen and her colleagues at the Federal Reserve will lift rates in September for one major reason.
It isn't just global shocks that may support Treasuries &mdash; while jobs are back and business confidence is growing, wages remain stagnant.
