Recent history shows why and how diversification and active strategies not only work but are necessary.
Few follow Warren Buffett's maxim — “Put all of your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket” &mdash as diligently as Scott Moore. A high concentration of stocks should make investing more volatile but since November 2008, he's beaten the market.
Finance chiefs from nations holding more than $1.3 trillion of Treasuries signaled no plans to sell even as the U.S. faced condemnation for the fiscal fight plaguing the world's largest economy.
"Challenging" market environment leads to slightly lower price for ARC IV.
It's still hard to find income in today's markets. So where is BlackRock's multiasset income honcho Michael Fredericks looking? Jason Kephart finds out.
Here's one way to use the drop in bond prices and the rise in other assets to your tax advantage. Caution: it's not for every investor.
Most respondents to a Natixis survey said they use alternatives sparingly and stick to strategies that can be explained to clients more easily.
Portfolio manager Wally Weitz's bets on Warren Buffett and telecoms mogul John Malone have helped his fund produce the best risk-adjusted performance among U.S. value funds in the past five years.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: Bernanke sees low rates for a long, long time; holiday retailers on the ropes; SAC Capital jury selection; investigating fishy employment data; coal becomes the next tobacco-style villain
Today's Breakfast with (<i>InvestmentNews</i> senior columnist Jeff) Benjamin: SEC targets advisers; hedging with gold mining stocks; new muni bond math, and how athlete IPOs pull a hammy.
Largest IPO by a technology company since Facebook in May 2012 values the microblogging company at $14.2 billion. At $26 each, above the offering price, shares to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on Thursday.
Obamacare may be off the debt ceiling agenda but for investors, there is an exchange-traded fund that holds all the businesses likely benefit. It's had a good run so is there still upside potential?
Sales of nontraded REITs and other illiquid securities are surging even as stocks hit record highs. Talk about diversification.
Nontraded REIT Cole Real Estate shareholders OK a listing on the New York Stock Exchange. The stock will begin trading tomorrow but the price is still uncertain.
Will focus on liquid alternatives education as money manager launches new fixed income fund.
China's economic reform blueprint stokes markets. Plus: Strategies for early retirement, how Tim Geithner is getting really rich, the bleeding edge of biotech, and women flood the U.S. labor market. Expertly curated by <i>InvestmentNews</i> senior columnist Jeff Benjamin.
Today's Breakfast with Benjamin: The regulator tells the mutual fund industry to stop promising safety and protection. Plus, the QE government bonanza, JPMorgan's Twitter beatdown, SAC Capital trial could go inside the hedge fund.
Thanks to the threat of rising rates, it's no longer a set-it-and-forget-it world. Now advisers have grabbed the core bond fund crown from Bill Gross and Jeffrey Gundlach, taking control over their own bond portfolios.
