In a certain sense, it has been easy to make money in the capital markets over the last few years. For many U.S. investors, the winning approach has been "The simpler, the better." In many cases, an allocation to some mix of U.S. stocks and bonds...

The much anticipated Brexit referendum is now in our rearview mirror, but the uncertainty is far from over as Britons voted to leave the EU and will be led by a new Prime Minister during this unprecedented time. The Brexit vote was costly as i...

(Bloomberg) -- Beneath a placid surface that broke last week, chaos has been reigning all year in U.S. equities...

(Bloomberg) -- One selling point of a newfangled investment strategy that has swept Wall Street is diversification through factors: buy stocks with high dividends, and your results will vary from those chosen for price momentum. But what if...

If you want to understand why value strategies have trouble attracting inflows, look not at investors but at the people they hire.

“Summer Charts” is a series of current financial topics explained in dots, lines and only a few words—just the right “mix” to concisely convey ideas for critical thinking about economic topics and investing.  My little community in Edgewater...

(Bloomberg) -- The U.S. presidential election is nine weeks away, but Wall Street has already chosen a winner: itself...

St. Jude Medical Inc. filed a lawsuit against short-seller Muddy Waters, MedSec and related companies as well as three executives at the firms...

In recent years, many institutional investors have committed to measure and lower exposure to carbon emissions in their portfolios. But that presents a challenge: how to estimate such exposure, given the lack of disclosure by most companies about...

(Bloomberg View) -- Financial crises are becoming more frequent as markets and the rules that govern them grow ever more complex. New research suggests that this is no coincidence -- and that a simpler system would be a lot more resilient...