Delaying Social Security benefits is the equivalent of getting about a 6.5 percent bond return, said industry blogger and financial planning guru Michael Kitces. Speaking during the 2014 Morningstar Investment Conference in Chicago, Kitces told...
Smart beta—or alternative beta, as some call it—is getting a lot of attention from investors and advisors these days, and many fund managers are launching new strategies in this area. These funds weight holdings in unconventional ways...
Morningstar investment analysts spoke about the current state of the market and their investment recommendations during a roundtable panel discussion on Wednesday at the Morningstar Investment Conference. Here are the top takeaways.
Unconstrained bond managers are free to roam the world, trying to squeeze money out of any debt instrument they can find
Find companies that have a combination of low price and high quality
Hungary, Poland, Mexico and South Korea are among the countries poised to handle a pull back in U.S. monetary stimulus
Emerging market stocks have now pulled ahead of the performance of the S&P 500 Index for 2014, which may finally mark the beginning of the turn for EM relative performance.
Peer-to-peer (P2P) lending emerged a few years before the financial crisis gripped the globe. In the United States, Prosper was founded in early 2006 and Lending Club, which began as a Facebook application, opened its doors (figuratively speaking)...
