The stock market has been gorging on gains over the last six years and the big question is are we ready for a crash diet...

Building a behemoth. Vanguard saw a net $219 billion flow into their U.S. mutual funds and ETFs in 2014, and is on track to account for 20 percent of total industry assets by the end of this year. Morningstar calls it the most dominant fun...

Clearly, in order to make sense of risk and opportunities offered in financial markets, clients will want to hire managers that are skilled, but opportunity is the other crucial component to investment success.

Use an SPT to manage concentration risk

A mini Ric Edelman? | Copyright Oli Scarff, Getty Images Ric Edelman’s “exponential technology” strategy for investment management is now a BlackRock ETF.  The new iShares Exponential Technologies ETF (nysearca:XT) began with the Edelman F...

Despite mostly downside surprises from U.S. economic data, hopes of a slower pace in interest rate normalization from the Federal Reserve pushed U.S. stocks and bonds upward. A seesaw week for U.S. stocks ended on the upside last week, though the...

By Craig Erlam...

It was just a sniff, mind you, but it was of a foul odor. A whiff of inflation seen in the monthly Consumer Price Index data held back stocks this morning that I believe would have otherwise gained from the get-go. The SPDR S&P 500 (NYSE: [...

An obstinately dovish U.S. Federal Reserve and a European Central Bank intent on carrying out its own, massive Quantitative Easing (QE) bond buying programme have pushed Treasury rates to near historic lows and European rates to obscene levels. As...