Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S. Photographer: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg © 2019 Bloomberg Finance LP With the U.S. Treasury 10-year yield close to 2% and many other government bonds in Europe and Japan yielding negative rates. Does it still make sense to hold bonds in a
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An updated spreadsheet of the greatest fund managers is available to download at the link at the end of this article. Getty At the midpoint of the year, it’s time to review the performance of the greatest fund managers. I have received many emails from readers asking how to use the spreadsheet listing the greatest fund
ASSOCIATED PRESS Increasingly, the old family homestead is not being passed down to the family when the parents die. Older parents are taking advantage of reverse mortgages to pay off credit cards and to escape poverty and debt. This reduces equity in the home and often leads to foreclosure, leaving traditional heirs with nothing but
Photocredit: Rob Grabowski/Invision/AP Sometimes it’s a hard thing to swallow when you realize that a personal icon has failed to maintain the standards you set for them. Lance Armstrong, whose career I followed with admiration, conquered testicular cancer and went on to win the Tour de France seven times. He would go on to inspire
America is trying to turn China into another Japan. When it comes to trade relations between the two sides, that is. Washington wants to be in control of US-China trade. The same way it wanted to be in control of the US-Japan trade back in the 1980s. That’s has been obvious from the very beginning
By Laurence J. Kotlikoff, Next Avenue Contributor United Income, a financial planning advisory service, just released an important study called, “The Retirement Solution Hiding In Plain Sight.” Using government data and proprietary software, it calculates how much money retirees have lost, and are losing, by making mistakes about when to start claiming Social Security benefits. United
Social Security may be one of your largest assets. What and when you collect will make a huge difference to your lifetime benefits. Today’s column addresses how spousal benefits are determined, automatic payments of Medicare premiums after filing, whether to file for and suspend a retirement benefit or file a restricted application for spousal benefits
Reits touchscreen is shown by businesswoman. Getty In a recent research paper, Thomas Bohjalian, Head of U.S. Real Estate and Senior Portfolio Manager at Cohen & Steers explains said that “REITs have proven resilient amid escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and China, even delivering a slight gain in the U.S.” He went on to
“Zero inventory” has been mostly unobtainable for manufacturers. But cutting-edge 3D printing technology is giving managers renewed hope. Carbon announced Tuesday it raised $260 million in growth funding. This San Francisco company is developing a platform executives claim will bring 3D printing to high-volume production. Selective laser melting, direct metal laser sintering, 3d printing, industry 4.0 Getty
ASSOCIATED PRESS In the South China Sea, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte must do the right thing: stand up to China, protect the interests, the resources, and the lives of the Filipino people from China’s aggression; the same way the Indonesian and the Vietnamese leaders did for their own people. And that could ease geopolitical risks,