Best selling author Loral Langemeier tells her legions of followers to quit passively investing their savings in stocks and bonds. Invest directly, she says, in real estate and in other businesses. Why be so passive?
Mario Gabelli, one of Wall Street's best-known money managers, has been in the spotlight lately, but not for his investment returns. The Justice Department charged him with civil fraud in auctions for wireless telephone licenses. Meantime, two...
Money-market funds may not be sexy but they have been attracting advisors attention lately. But is the retail investor better off in a money market or an insured account?
Hard to believe, but true: Real estate wasn't always the hot dot. Just five years ago, the average real estate investment trust (REIT) traded at a big discount to the value of its assets by about 25 percent, on average, according to...