The financial services industry is burdened by paperwork. But stock-jockey brokers should be thanking the Feds in at least one instance: for insider trading data. Insiders company officers, directors, relatives, anyone with access to key company...
It would appear that corporate cost cutting and a string of positive economic data are putting investors in a sunny mood again. Take, the Nasdaq, for example it's up by 40 percent this year. But before you chuck out all those bear funds that you...
So the market has finally remembered it can go up, and it appears that it's also learning how to sustain its rally. The foundation of this economic recovery is that the oversupply of goods and services that has been hobbling the U.S. economy too...
Just when it looked like all those scandals were behind us and the markets were helping mend fences with leery clients, the business has gotten yet another black eye. This time, the problem is with mutual funds more precisely how favored traders...
The mutual fund hangover is starting to subside. In 2000, fund investors and their advisors awoke to a doozey of a day-after: a market nosedive that caused investors not only to lose money but also socked them with capital gains tax bills for the...
Class B shares fell out of favor with fund investors two years ago, and they raise some suitability issues that may make brokers wary. Yet, to some, Class Bs remain a good option for small investors.
Whether it's a money market fund or a long-term bond portfolio, one of the first things many investors professionals and novices alike want to know about a bond fund is its yield. Many view a fund's yield as an approximation of the income a fund...
How useful are analysts' recommendations? The argument has been raging for years. There have been numerous academic studies and even actual matches between and real-life stock pickers remember the Wall Street Journal's dartboard contest, in which...
How do you define style? When it comes to mutual fund investing, this is no idle question. After all, every advisor looks at the world of mutual funds and analyzes them by their stated investment styles growth, value, whatever. The trouble is...