Legendary investor Benjamin Graham wrote in <i>The Intelligent Investor</i> that the proportion of an investor's portfolio held in bonds should never be less than 25% or more than 75%.
T. Rowe Price's target-date fund family was the best performing in 2009, followed closely by funds from John Hancock, according to Russell Investments research.
Even though equities are already riding the stock market's rally since March, they are still too attractive to ignore, according to Margie Patel, who manages nearly $1 billion in two balanced funds for Evergreen Investments.
A second commodity-linked iPath exchange-traded note issued by Barclays Bank PLC – the iPath Dow Jones-UBS Platinum Subindex Total Return Exchange Traded Note (PGM) – stopped trading today due to an “ongoing regulatory review” of such products, the bank said in a statement.
With the U.S. dollar staging a surprising rally, investors who have piled into foreign stock and bond funds may get burned, some market watchers say.
The three winners of the 2009 Fund Manager of the Year awards announced today by Morningstar Inc. all have one thing in common: they all stuck to their investment strategies during a difficult period, laying the groundwork for last year's success.
The last of the big Wall Street banks' efforts to repay TARP funds met with mixed results in the stock market last week — a cautionary tale for investors who are looking to dabble in the financial services sector.
China's exports are making a comeback after a jarring slump threw millions out of work, a sign of improving global demand.
New life insurance premium levels at banks leapt by nearly 60% during the third quarter, beating the overall industry's growth for the second consecutive quarter, according to data from Kehrer-LIMRA.
A California couple has filed suit against The Variable Annuity Life Insurance Co., an AIG Inc. subsidiary, claiming the company's sales agents misled investors about the tax advantages of using variable annuities in qualified retirement plans.
Finra has barred a registered representative after finding that the Virginia rep had misrepresented the return a client would receive on a deferred annuity.
Though adults know it would be disastrous to lose their income due to a disability, it seems only a minority of them actually insure against that risk.
Having taken over as chief executive of American International Group Inc.'s Domestic Life and Retirement Services, Jay S. Wintrob has assured employees in a letter that SunAmerica and VALIC products will be back on distributors' shelves.
Cincinnati Financial Corp. said Monday that Robert C. Schiff, a company founder who retired from the property and casualty insurer's board in 2004, has died. He was 86.
Despite an improving economy, losses and investment risks continue to loom ahead for life insurers' investment portfolios, according to a report from ratings firm A.M. Best Co. Inc.
Even as they fight a rule that would treat indexed annuities as securities, many insurers are pre-paring their agents to become registered representatives, should the rule become law.
Rising taxes and puny money fund rates are leading investors to revisit the public-debt sector
