Economy & Markets
The important economic and stock market news that advisors need to know.
Top Portfolio Products: New Offerings for Annuities and Impact Investing
By Marlene Y. SatterInsurance, annuities and impact investing dominate this week's offerings of new portfolio products and solutions.
March 28, 2016
Where to Invest if Interest Rates Go NegativeThought the Fed's rate hike marked the end of easy money? Think again. Welcome to the Bizarro World of negative interest rate policy (NIRP).
March 28, 2016
Real Investment Adviser Sold Some Fake InvestmentsThe Andrew Caspersen case: a pretty popular fraud with a twist: the victim was a hedge fund.
March 25, 2016
10 Best & Worst Broker-Dealers: 2015 EarningsThe top four firms on this list posted huge earnings gains year over year, while profits shrank for the bottom five.
March 25, 2016
8 reasons why investors face roller-coaster marketsRisk assets such as stocks, corporate bonds and bank loans have been trading in a wide and volatile range, taking investors on a roller-coaster ride.
March 25, 2016
Bernanke Offers an ‘Exotic’ Way for the Fed to Address the Next SlowdownEducating the public and market participants about more-radical monetary policy alternatives might help ensure that those alternatives are never needed, the former Fed chairman writes.
March 25, 2016
The Fed’s ‘Wizard of Oz’ Effect on the S&P 500: GMOAccording to GMO, FOMC days, regardless of the action announced, account for 25% of total real returns since 1984.
March 24, 2016
If You're Over 65, You Should Love the FedIf low interest rates have posed a challenge for seniors, why then have they done relatively well in terms of consumption and income?