As the popularity of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) grows, financial advisors are increasingly pressed to separate the wheat from the chaff, the meat from the gristle, the men from the boys or whatever other stale clich comes to mind. Industry...
For most Americans, the most important asset class is not the stock portfolio, it's the house. No wonder some homeowners are getting a bit nervous. The sub-prime mortgage fiasco is forcing up the cost of money, particularly on jumbo mortgages...
Exchange-traded notes (ETNs) are hot. That's right, ETNs that's no typo. Do not confuse ETNs with their cousins, exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which because of their low cost and tax efficiency have become the financial world's iPod equivalent...
Creating lists such as this can be a notoriously capricious business. For starters, why only 10 people? Good question. But it forces a silly answer: The number 10 is a good number simple as that. Yes, it's somewhat arbitrary, but the object is to...
Remember when Chevy Chase used to wrap up the Weekend Update faux-news segment of Saturday Night Live with the line, I'm Chevy Chase and you're not? David Swensen, the manager of the Yale University endowment, has posted such consistently strong...
There are a few stumbling blocks, but a U.S. launch could be just around the corner.
The broker protocol just got a lot more inclusive. The exclusive pact between several wirehouse and broker/dealer firms stipulates that the firms will refrain from taking legal action when their brokers switch to other signatory firms and take...