Corporations around the world responded aggressively to the global recession and financial crisis, clamping down on spending and hoarding massive piles of cash. In the United States, where cost-cutting was especially dramatic, nonfinancial firms...
The last decade has seen both the tech wreck and the housing bubble burst, leaving greater skepticism about financial institutions and a deeper interest in identifying “bubbles” amongst both the professional and investing public...
Younger investors, we were told, lost their taste for equities after getting beaten up by two recessions in the past 10 years. But new data from Vanguard suggest that Gen Y's aversion to risk may be overstated. The company found that in the...
The tortoise is catching up to the hare. According to a new report by Strategic Insight, small fry money managers are making significant in-roads into the fund marketplace, with 20 of the 25 fastest-growing fund firms having less than $5 billion...
As more wealth managers and multi-family offices outsource their investment decisions to third party asset managers, these assets managers are coming under greater scrutiny—and not just for their investment performance...
Nearly two-thirds of respondents (64 percent) to an online survey of investors conducted this spring by National Real Estate Investor and Marcus & Millichap plan to to boost the size of their commercial real estate portfolios over the next 12...
Ever since the first index-tracking fund was launched the early 1970s, investment pundits have been throwing brickbats at each as they debate the merits and the costs of active management. You know the argument. It basically boils down to this: &...
Even though the market has been rallying for more than two years, clients remain wary. Many still are clinging to big cash stakes. To calm nerves and ease clients back into stocks, consider using equity funds that rank among the most conservative...
