Here are nine little-known high-earning professions you should be considering as target markets.
It’s easy to assume when you can pack a seminar room full of qualified prospects, you’ll expect a bunch of new paying clients.
How can you leverage the time you have left in this year to maximize your referral results?
I’m going to discuss five facts about this group that will give you a better sense of these worthy immigrants.
We never get too old for stories. And especially in the current volatile market, our clients benefit greatly from hearing a story like Dimensional’s – which gets better the longer it continues.
After getting thrashed in the era of low interest rates, the last remaining hedge fund managers dedicated to the world of foreign exchange are in fighting spirits this year.
Merck & Co. has said nothing publicly about rumors that it is in talks to buy Seagen, a biotech company working on cancer treatments, for about $40 billion.
US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi became the highest-ranking American politician to visit Taiwan in 25 years, prompting China to announce military drills encircling the island.
The long-running active versus passive debate has become even more heated than usual during the recent stock market turmoil.
This week, everyone working on energy and climate issues in the US is intensely focused on the Inflation Reduction Act, looking for smoke signals as to whether it will pass and if any modifications will be made.
Uber Technologies Inc. reported revenue that beat analysts’ estimates, boosted by resilient demand from customers who continued to hail rides and order takeout food despite rising inflation. Shares jumped about 14% in early trading.
What about those, like members of some religious orders, who consciously make vows of poverty? Does that lead to harmful money choices?
Joe Biden took a political gamble with his visit to Saudi Arabia last month, courting a kingdom he once vowed to punish in a quest for more oil supplies. This week will reveal whether it paid off.
July was an illustration of the adage that “the market is not the economy.” US stocks had their best month in two years while the economy received discouraging news about both growth and inflation.
Bond bulls, while savoring a stellar rebound in returns fueled by growing recession fears, are braced for potential setbacks.
Necessity is the mother of invention, so they say. And in this case, stupidity is as well.
Currently, the electric vehicle market is bumping into some constraints on the supply side.
Investors expect Elon Musk to sell more shares of his electric carmaker Tesla Inc. by the end of 2022, according to the latest MLIV Pulse survey.
Before investors get too excited about the July surge in stocks, here’s something to keep in mind: August and September are historically the two worst months for the S&P 500 Index.
Last week, Bob was visited on Martha’s Vineyard by frequent author David Blanchett, his wife Sarah, and their four children. David is managing director and head of retirement research at PGIM, a unit of Prudential Financial, Inc. He is also an adjunct professor of wealth management at The American College.
One obvious strategy in pursuit of an environmental, social and governance (ESG) mandate is to exclude fossil fuel stocks. But new research shows this has made the portfolio vulnerable to supply or demand shocks to energy.
This is the first in a series of articles that will explore tax-efficient retirement distribution strategies.
When starting with a niche, you may find it difficult to produce topics for your content marketing. To get ideas, take notes about what your prospects are talking about. This article covers specific points to create an effective content strategy.
Although supply constraints and depletion brought these bouts of inflation, there’s a universal conviction that government spending and the massive “printing” of money is the culprit, and that the only solution is to raise interest rates. Three simple points contradict this conventional wisdom.
Sector tilting during cycle phases is one way to improve your risk-adjusted performance.
Two key US inflation gauges posted larger-than-forecast increases on Friday, heightening concerns that prices will remain persistently high and prompt continued aggressive interest-rate increases from the Federal Reserve.
The extreme pessimism that’s gripped American stock investors for much of the year is starting to dissipate. That might be reason for caution.
The US is poised to deliver a bumper spring wheat crop in the upcoming weeks, which if realized could help relieve global shortfalls caused by turmoil in the Black Sea.
Google is for search. TikTok is for entertainment. At least that’s how it used to be.
Earnings reports from the biggest technology companies show that the group is navigating the tough economic environment better than smaller rivals, fueling a rebound in stock prices and encouraging investors about the outlook for the second half.
Bitcoin and Ether, the world’s two largest digital tokens, are headed toward their best month since 2021 amid a revival of risk appetite in global markets and optimism about an Ethereum network upgrade.
US consumer spending barely rose in June after falling in the prior month, underscoring how decades-high inflation has eroded Americans’ paychecks and tempered demand.
The days of working from home may be numbered.
Announcing another interest-rate increase on Wednesday, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell said that the path toward a soft landing — with lower inflation and no significant rise in unemployment — has narrowed. The question is whether there is any such path.
Marriage in the US also unlocks an under-discussed retirement option: the spousal IRA.
Trading volume in the yuan-ruble pair increased to the highest ever this week and hit a daily record of 7.82 billion yuan ($1.16 billion) on Wednesday, according to Moscow Exchange data.
Amazon.com Inc. was the latest company to discuss its belt-tightening efforts this week.
The official arbiters of US recessions aren’t close to making a call that a downturn is under way, and may end up concluding 2022’s first half was part of a continuing expansion.
The US economy is losing momentum heading into the back half of the year, highlighted by the government’s latest report card that showed weaker consumer spending and declines in business and residential investment.
Wealthy Americans, who were girding for the biggest set of tax increases in three decades just a year ago, now look mostly safe from higher levies for years to come.
Looking for greener pastures, advisors are weighing their options.
Tough times are not an excuse to stop marketing. When you do that, your career will suffer from neglect and inaction.
Oil extended gains after a big draw in US crude inventories, while the prospect of a slower pace of interest-rate hikes from the Federal Reserve filtered through markets, buoying commodities.
The market’s inflation concerns are taking a back seat to recession fears.
Gold climbed after the US economy shrank for a second consecutive quarter, pushing the dollar and Treasury yields lower, and clouding the outlook for further aggressive interest-rate hikes as the Federal Reserve fights inflation.
The dreaded R word is looming over Americans as the economy contracts and the Federal Reserve raises rates.
Chair Jerome Powell said the Federal Reserve will press on with the steepest tightening of monetary policy in a generation to curb surging inflation, while handing officials more flexibility on coming moves amid signs of a broadening economic slowdown.
A few days ago, Coinbase Global Inc.’s top lawyer issued an unequivocal rejection of the US Securities and Exchange Commission’s allegations that digital tokens it offers its customers were, in fact, unregistered securities. “Coinbase does not list securities,” Paul Grewal wrote in a blog post. “End of story.”
Have we reached peak social media?
Meta Platforms Inc., the social media giant that includes Facebook and Instagram, reported its first-ever quarterly sales decline, citing advertisers’ shrinking budgets.
