Investing is a very complex business, even for those with the training and credentials to do it full-time as a job. It’s a heavily regulated industry, and even then there … Read more →

If there’s anything about investing and saving that’s easy to understand, it’s that more is more. If you save more, you invest more. If you save less, you invest less. … Read more →

Investing is hard, so hard that even experienced and highly paid professionals get it wrong. So how can do-it-yourselfers come out ahead? You can do better by reducing your chances … Read more →

Is it better for active investors, those who think they can outsmart the market as a whole, when things are unpredictable? You couldn’t have gotten more unpredictable than 2016. Brexit, … Read more →

New data from the hedge fund industry points to a continuing exit from the high-priced trading strategies. Liquidations, the shutting down of hedge funds, are at their highest since the … Read more →

A lot has been written over the past few weeks about the U.S. bond market. Expectations are for interest rates to rise and bond prices to fall. That would not … Read more →

This much we know: More often than not, stocks rise during the week between Christmas and New Year’s Day. Not 100% of the time, but enough to lead people to … Read more →

If you’re reading this column you were probably not in the scrum of shoppers out trying to score a cheap flat-screen TV. And thank goodness for that! Of course, we … Read more →

“I read it on the Internet, it must be real” is likely to go down as the hallmark of this year’s presidential election. Research suggests that engagement on social media … Read more →

It’s incredibly easy to keep track of your finances these days. Hundreds of apps on our phones promise to follow spending, investments, budgets and credit cards. Visit any finance news … Read more →