Retail investors, who helped push stocks to all-time highs, are now trying a different tactic: Betting against the market.

I’ll share some insights as you encourage your team to be more open-minded and innovative and to help with facilitating change efforts within your organization.

I posted the job requirements on a popular website for experienced writers, listed my requirements and waited for the responses. You can learn a lot from my experience.

The CFP Board has strayed from its mission of improving life for the consumer. Instead, it is generating as much confusion as possible for the furthering of its own interests. Make no mistake – transparency is not on its agenda. This is a massive disservice to the public.

The search for information and direction about financial assistance and special-needs planning can be especially frustrating for caregivers.

After a furious spate of retail selling unseen since December 2018 and beaten-down risk appetite, all the ingredients were in place heading into the big stock rebound Monday.

This year's brutal market has investors across asset classes and international markets running for the exits. But where there’s panic and wreckage, there’s also arbitrage and opportunity.

Florida’s response to Hurricane Ian illustrates how governments are making it harder to adjust to climate change by subsidizing the insurance market.

Most seers believe the US labor market is overly strong.

Trying to forecast inflation is a hazardous occupation when there's so much volatility in markets, supply chains and energy prices. But we can get some sense of where inflation is likely to go by tracking the profit margins of companies that make goods and services that go into the consumer prices basket.

Chief executive officers are putting a number of ESG goals on hold as they try to prepare their businesses for fallout from a possible recession, according to a study conducted by KPMG.

Tesla Inc. shares jumped Tuesday after Cathie Wood bought the company’s shares following their Monday’s plunge, prompted by a disappointing delivery number for the third quarter.

Taking the right precautions, such as implementing two-factor authentication, firewalls, and encryption, protects data in transit and reduces cybersecurity risk. Focusing on careful password management when working with a team reduces the risk of cybercrime and offers peace of mind.

What are the worst ROI marketing tactics advisors are taking on today? Behold, the top four.

Global bonds and stocks are rallying on hopes that the latest signs of weakness in the US economy will push the Federal Reserve to rethink the aggressive monetary policy tightening that some fear will trigger a recession.

One investment with the ability to provide current income, inflation protection, and even the potential for capital appreciation has been largely overlooked – rising dividend stocks.

In a marriage or committed relationship, income and wealth inequality between partners presents challenges that don’t exist when they are financial equals.

It’s thus troubling that the Treasury market has faltered at critical moments, raising fears of further disruptions as central banks end a long period of easy money.

In rural America, the shoulder-high corn is increasingly competing with a new cash crop: solar power.

A key lithium producer in Australia, the world’s top supplier, is urging electric car manufacturers and battery makers to become its partners in new refinery projects, arguing their direct financial backing is vital to avoid shortfalls of the material that’s crucial to the clean energy transition.

A growing number of Americans are renouncing their citizenship to escape a law that was designed to crack down on offshore tax evasion.

Gold climbed higher, helped by a continued decline in Treasury yields, as traders weighed concerns that central banks’ monetary tightening will lead to recession and the possibility that bond rates may have reached a peak.

Global manufacturing contracted in September for the first time in more than two years as orders and production continued to weaken, underscoring growing risks of a worldwide recession.

On Thursday last week, Bob and Anna Sachar, the chief operating officer of Advisor Perspectives, were in New York City. They had not seen each other in person since the start of the pandemic and were able to spend some time together over dinner.

Instead of focusing on the advantages fiduciary standards would provide to the profession, lobbyists who represent advisors should point to the catastrophic failures of the perverse incentives embedded in the brokerage business model.

For most of 2022, the VIX been above its average, which historically has led to lower equity returns. I will review the risks that investors face, which explain the continued high level of uncertainty.

Introverted financial advisors can stand out from the competition. Here are three marketing strategies to help you play to your strengths as an introvert.

Federal Reserve officials are starting to stake out different views on how fast to raise interest rates as they balance hot inflation against rising stress in financial markets.

German utility RWE AG agreed to buy Consolidated Edison Inc.’s renewable energy assets for $6.8 billion, in one of the biggest green deals in US history.

Investors are primed for any bit of good news to help them forget a brutal quarter for stocks that took this year’s value destruction to $24 trillion. A resilient corporate earnings season might give them that.

Elon Musk showed off a prototype humanoid robot walking and waving its hand, seeking to demonstrate Tesla Inc.’s advances in artificial intelligence.

Unwavering profit projections. Benign chart patterns. Big hedges in the options market. All the things that bulls expected to put a brake on the worst equity selloff in 30 months have just summarily failed.

With investors feeling anxious and looking for answers in these volatile and uncertain economic times, advisors should stick to a basic roadmap to help clients stay the course. Here are four ways advisors can do that.

Short sellers are homing in on Cathie Wood’s pool of exchange-traded funds, undeterred by the rising cost to bet against the Ark Investment Management family.

The money flowing out of crypto-related funds in the third quarter has slowed down, a sign that many bearish investors may have already piled out of the risky asset class.

US long-term inflation expectations continued to ease in September, helping slightly lift consumer sentiment from the previous month despite growing economic uncertainty.

Tesla Inc. is expected to announce record quarterly deliveries as the electric-vehicle giant tries to recover from supply-chain snarls that crimped output earlier this year.

Airlines enjoyed a hot summer, as “revenge travel” and soaring fares lifted the companies. But investors have been reluctant to get on board as recession fears cloud the outlook, leaving the stocks languishing.

Tensions are brewing at work between employees who have returned to the office and those who’ve continued to work from home, according to a survey of US workers.

Sales gurus have taught for decades that people buy from only those they know and like. That’s the wrong advice.

How risky is the stock market for investors who are focused on the long-term real spending their wealth can support, rather than the present value of their wealth?

American companies have had a growing list of reasons to downgrade their ties with China in recent years. Former President Donald Trump’s tariffs. Beijing’s stringent Covid lockdowns. The US-Sino standoff over Taiwan. Political pressure to “friend-shore” supply chains toward nations aligned with Washington. But breaking up, as the adage goes, is hard to do.

Commodities face a daunting set of risks in the final stretch of a turbulent year, from demand disruption and Russia’s escalation in Ukraine to extreme weather and deep policy uncertainty in China.

Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard said the US central bank will need to keep interest rates high for some time to bring inflation down, even as she acknowledged the need to watch global financial-stability risks from rising borrowing costs.

The credit-market bears may well be vindicated if the US enters a recession in the next year, but it’s too early to go full-scale Armageddon with predictions about corporate bond spreads.

Employers are now forced to compete with companies all over the country to retain their most prized employees. But that’s not the only problem.

The Biden administration on Thursday reversed course on part of its student debt forgiveness plan and will no longer forgive privately held federal student loans, according to an update to a Department of Education fact sheet.

First they came for factory jobs. Then they showed up in service industries. Now, machines are making inroads into the kind of white-collar office work once thought to be the exclusive preserve of humans.

In a year of volatile markets, the humble I bond has emerged as an unlikely star. Now, there’s a new way to buy them.

This week’s bond meltdown has sent the mean 10-year borrowing cost for Group of Seven countries to its highest in more than a decade, with the average yield surging above 3%. What happens next could set the tone for financial markets and the global economy for years to come.