As many look to diversify portfolios into frontier markets, some advisers might consider recommending Peru, which offers an economy with peaks and valleys reminiscent of the country's Andes Mountains.
The dramatic drop in stock holdings has advisers working closely to help investors determine whether to claim tax losses.
Brokers and industry observers worry that the Department of the Treasury's capital purchase program to inject $250 billion into the financial services industry could mark a new era of government control and mistrust of the industry.
The unfolding global economic crisis, vividly illustrated by the recent record-level stock market volatility, is sparking new debate over the value of gold as part of an investment portfolio.
Calling the $700 billion government bailout an “extraordinary response to an extraordinary crisis,” President Bush today said that it is “going to take awhile” for the initiative to thaw the frozen credit markets.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has chosen Nov. 17 as the new deadline for comments on its proposal to register indexed annuities.
Consumer confidence fell by the largest amount on record in October, according to a preliminary release of the Reuters/University of Michigan Surveys of Consumers' Index of Consumer Sentiment.
The housing crisis showed no signs of rebounding in September as construction of homes dropped to its slowest pace since early 1991, and building permits for new homes fell to their lowest level in almost 27 years.
New York Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo has demanded that AIG recover the money it spent on lavish outings, bonuses and golden parachutes — and threatened sanctions if the insurer didn’t heed the order.
Merrill Lynch & Co. Inc. and Citigroup Inc. were walloped by third-quarter losses, while State Street Corp., The PNC Financial Services Group Inc. and Bank of New York Mellon Corp. posted profits.
The U.S. economy appears to be in a recession, San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank president Janet Yellen said yesterday, according to published reports.
Major life insurance companies’ investments in non-prime mortgages are going to continue hurting their capital positions as the year rolls on, according to a study from Fitch Ratings Ltd.
Let’s say you were a financial planner in 1926. Of course, there was no such discipline as financial planning in the Roaring ’20s.
New York-based JPMorgan Chase reported a third-quarter profit of $527 million, or 11 cents a share, down 84% from the $3.4 billion, or 97 cents a share, recorded in the year-ago period.
The federal budget deficit for fiscal year 2008 was reported today at a record $455 billion by the Department of the Treasury.
Investors are more likely to change their investments strategies if government raises the capital gains tax, according to a survey released today by Eaton Vance Corp. of Boston.
Despite being hit with a trading scandal this year and being exposed to assets from the now-bankrupt Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. of New York, Société Générale SA is estimating a third-quarter profit.
The TCJA enacted major changes on what expenses investors can claim on their tax returns. Find out which portfolio management fees are tax-deductible
The Department of the Treasury has hired The Bank of New York Mellon Corp. to be the custodian that will implement its $700 billion economic-stimulus package.
The Securities and Exchange Commission has reopened the comment period for its proposed rule on federal regulation of index annuities.
