Stocks
The stock market news and analysis you need to know when developing, monitoring and adjusting client portfolios.
Pumping Out Commodity Funds
By Staff WriterFinancial advisors interested in natural resources stocks now have another commodity ETF among their choices. The Thomson Reuters/Jeffries CRB Global Commodity Index Fund (CRBQ)...
October 28, 2009
Claymore Debuts All-Cap China ETFYAO is benchmarked to the AlphaShares China All Cap Index.
October 12, 2009
Assessing a Client's Risk Tolerance: Don't Think You Can Set It and Forget ItOver the years there has been a great deal of discussion pertaining to the topic of determining a client's tolerance for assuming risk. Questionnaires abound...
October 01, 2009
Lessons from the 2008 Markets Selloff: Searching for Alpha, October 2009It's been a year since the fall of Lehman Brothers, the storied investment bank that was forced to declare bankruptcy following an unsuccessful bid for a government bailout.
October 01, 2009
High Hopes and Altered GenesBiotech has long been a high-risk, high-reward industry. It is an industry in which numerous firms, including many small-caps and start-ups, intensively research possible...
September 30, 2009
ALPS Launches Commodity Stock FundInvestors interested in natural resources stocks have another commodity ETF to choose from. The Thomson Reuters/Jeffries CRB Global Commodity Index Fund (CRBQ) from ALPS Funds has just debuted.
September 30, 2009
Why Investors are Usually WrongWhat will the market do next? There are many indicators, and about as many interpretations of those indicators, investors use in an attempt to predict...
September 30, 2009
Inflation ParadoxA little inflation is a good thing, because it shows that there is decent demand for products, and an economy that's nicely "humming along." Runaway inflation is not a good thing, however.