Dr. Marc Faber, who predicted the 1987 crash and the recent financial crisis, is predictably gloomy. Buy farmland, gold and head into the country to avoid a "dirty" war, he told a conference. For more, please go to VonAldo.com, the blog of Registered Rep. Editor-in-Chief David A. Geracioti....
The graph below measures the performance of the Shanghai Composite Index against a basket of Chinese ADRs selected by Bespoke Investment from Jan. 2,...
A recent study says says it paid to use fundamental indexing in the decade of The Aughts. Rather than losing money, you would have earned a small return. ...
After a painful year in 2008, some advisors and investors are falling back in love with hedge funds, but the terms of the relationship are changing. ...
In a story titled, Managing Managed Futures, in our September issue, there were errors in Tables 1 and 4, on pages 67 and 68. In Table 1, all of the returns...
The unprecedented seems to happen all too frequently in financial markets. Is there something wrong with the way financial advisors build their clients' portfolios?...
In the eye of the worst global economic storm since the Great Depression, financial advisors say all types of financial service firms lack trustworthiness....
If only financial institutions could invest as smartly as they contributed to Congressional and presidential campaigns, why, there would be no economic crisis at all...
Last month, as Wall Street was melting down and the global stock markets were crashing, I gave my parents some investing advice: I told them to invest...
In the first case of its kind, the SEC announced today that it has charged two individual financial advisors with fraud related to the sale of more than $1 billion in auction-rate securities....
Not satisfied with having ushered in a new era of efficient, low cost, investment-savvy pooled investment products, ETF issuers insist on trying to reengineer their own (already pretty darn good) invention....
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