Socially responsible funds all seek to invest in businesses that are good corporate citizens. But the funds rarely agree on which stocks pass the test. The Gulf oil spill has served to highlight the differences in strategies. ...
Considered by some to be a latecomer to the ETF party, Vanguard yesterday beefed up its exchange traded fund and mutual fund offerings. In keeping with its philosophy of shaving costs for investors, the expense ratio on the 500 Index Fund ETF is a niggling 0.06 percent. ...
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has been carefully signaling that the Fed stands ready to raise interest rates this year if the economy continues to mend. For bond funds that could be bad news. ...
The FT reports today that “overseas investors bought up Japanese equities at the fastest pace in three years in January as global asset managers rebalanced portfolios towards the country’s equity market from underweight positions.” For more, please go to VonAldo.com, the blog of Registered Rep. Editor-in-Chief David A. Geracioti...
In trying to fathom the amount of capital that financial firms have destroyed since last summer, I called an acquaintance who used to work at Merrill Lynch....
There was a time when the institutional side of a securities firm would walk with a swagger. After all, it was you, the retail financial advisor, who...
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Let's face it. Choosing an independent broker/dealer to join isn't easy. There are literally thousands, and each firm claims to offer the best. In a continuing...
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The SEC voted in February to propose changes to the structure of the Form ADV, the disclosure document that all investment advisors must complete. Instead...
One more time: Retail investors your clients are confused about the definition of a financial advisor. That is, they don't understand the difference between...
Kuwait. Singapore. Russia. China. The government investment funds of these countries, and several others, may have saved our financial system from severe...
Long a Favorite of Investors in Europe, structured products are rapidly gaining popularity in the United States. Last year, $114 billion in structured...
With markets soaring last year in places such as India and Turkey, investors poured cash into international funds. Of the $6.6 trillion invested in equity...
When markets turn down, the hated short sellers appear. The volume of short sales bets that stocks will drop spiked after technology shares began collapsing...
Someone’s going to get fired, fined or thrown in jail for this one. A recently released research report from a trio of finance professors claims to have found a pattern of, ahem, revisionism going on within Thomson Financial’s I/B/E/S database of stock-analyst recommendations....
These days, it's all about open architecture. Money manager Kenneth Fisher is having none of that. Fisher hires reps to gather assets for him to run on a discretionary basis...
Alvin Toffler and his wife, Heidi, authors of the classic, Future Shock, argue that economists stink at forecasting, that wealth is moving from the West to the East...
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