As markets brace for this week, we continue to expect that the U.S. and global economies will accelerate in 2014 relative to 2013’s growth rate...

Alternative investments are one of the fastest growing asset classes, especially in liquid form, but many clients (and advisors) have a hard time wrapping their hands around it. To that end, Pershing has added an Alternative Investment Center to...

The recent direction and pace of change in bond yields and the stock market is not unusual or inconsistent with the environment of the past five years

Another week brought another record close for equities. The S&P 500 Index increased 1.2% for the week (1), notching a new high, but investor attention appeared to be focused elsewhere. Low levels of market volatility, a pickup in M&A activity, a ...

Advisors' confidence in the economy ticked downward in May, fueled by a waning optimism in future stock market returns

More advisors are investing in exchange traded funds and cash than they were eight years ago, while variable and fixed annuities are becoming less popular. The Financial Planning Association’s 2014 Trends in Investing Survey found that nearly ei...