Category: Funds

Here are the 5 biggest financial regrets - and what to do about them.

The world’s biggest manager of other people’s money is surprisingly reluctant to talk about such a high-profile proposalWe know what many big-name fund management houses think of Unilever’s proposal to…

Buffett's Alpha? Warren Buffett prudently invests 99{01de1f41f0433b1b992b12aafb3b1fe281a5c9ee7cd5232385403e933e277ce6} of his wealth in absolute return strategies, like most risk averse savers. Leverage, arbitrage, derivatives, event-driven, opportunistic, special situations and macro strategies have…

Widows say becoming the sole financial decision maker was even more difficult than adjusting to a loss of income.

ETFs or Mutual Funds: Which Is the Better Investment Vehicle? Motley FoolOne is more tax efficient (in theory) but that's hardly the only consideration.

Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb is out with its Q4 letter for 2018. Their Sequoia Fund finished the year -2.62{01de1f41f0433b1b992b12aafb3b1fe281a5c9ee7cd5232385403e933e277ce6} compared to -4.38{01de1f41f0433b1b992b12aafb3b1fe281a5c9ee7cd5232385403e933e277ce6} for the S&P 500.New Positions in a2Milk, Electronic…

A growing number of soldiers, nurses and self-employed workers are using the investing app Stash. It allows people to invest with as little as $5.

IBM Chief of Human Resources Diane Gherson shares her best career advice and the future of work.

A popular instrument used to manage exposure to volatility is going away as markets have been faced with a number of uncertainties, even if a late-2018 rout for stocks has…

Advisers criticised over keeping poor-performing fund in influential buy-list but excluding top performerBritain’s biggest financial adviser, Hargreaves Lansdown, has slashed the fund offerings on its highly influential buy-list, controversially excluding…

The price of bitcoin falls over 5{01de1f41f0433b1b992b12aafb3b1fe281a5c9ee7cd5232385403e933e277ce6} to below $7,000 after a report that the Wall Street bank would not move forward with its crypto-trading plans.

Who is the world's best investor? Who ran the top performing hedge fund? When do past returns predict future performance? Defining "best" as highest risk adjusted alpha after deducting all…

It's getting harder to ignore the risk of contagion in emerging markets that many investors have been pushing aside, even as conditions in Argentina and Turkey have worsened.

Best And Worst Q1 2019: Consumer Cyclicals ETFs And Mutual Funds Seeking AlphaThe Consumer Cyclicals sector ranks eighth in Q1 2019. Based on an aggregation of ratings of 436 stocks…

Billion Dollar Whale: The man who fooled Wall Street, Hollywood & the world A bunch of pitches: the top stocks for 2019 Can more information lead to worse investment decisions?…

Oaktree Capital Chairman Howard Marks is out with his latest memo entitled Political Reality Meets Economic Reality. In it, he spends the first part of the letter with interesting first…

3 Prudential Mutual Funds for Spectacular Gains Zacks.comBelow we share with you four top-ranked Prudential Investments mutual funds. Each has earned a Zacks Mutual Fund Rank #1 (Strong Buy).

Investors are increasingly favoring so-called passive funds that blindly track market indexes at the expense of active funds that rely on a manager to pick stocks.

Criticism of storied mutual-fund manager is unfounded, writes Mark Hulbert.

A serious look at the trends right now in the level of interest rates and in the price of oil.