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An S&P report finds investors who turn to actively managed mutual funds or ETFs for international exposure aren’t getting their money’s worth, but some experts disagree, pointing particularly to small-caps.

American Depository Receipts can provide investors with an easy way to directly hold equities from around the world.

Thirty six percent of asset managers indicating they are likely or highly likely to increase spending on computer/data security in the next 12 to 18 months was among the key findings from Money Management Executive's annual Operational Issues Survey.

Advisors can help clients achieve foreign diversification in their portfolios by buying U.S.-listed companies with major overseas footprints. Is it enough?

Advisors must carefully examine what countries and types of companies are in various indexers’ emerging and frontier market baskets.

Indian stocks have been on a tear this year amid optimism about the country’s new government, but political uncertainty and rich valuations should give investors pause.

Currencies can offer investors high returns, but advisors should be aware of the dangers of buying equity and currency assets from the same place.

The changing regulatory environment has put fund managers under increasingly powerful scrutiny. That has put more pressure on management and compliance teams to find a way to increase transparency yet control risk.

The payouts may be substantial, but don’t let the dividends from foreign equities and funds shrink because of tax withholding.

As the S&P 500 bounces around record levels, observers from Blackstone Group’s President Tony James to Yale Professor Robert Shiller find U.S. stocks overvalued, but the same isn’t true for foreign equities.

Asset management experts weigh in on blurring of the lines between registered and private funds as well as what the investment industry of the future will look like.

Emerging markets bonds are volatile so they aren’t for everyone. But three main factors behind the sector's outperformance over the past decade continue to push this asset class higher, advisors say.

Even as the SEC decided last month to put alternative mutual funds under the regulatory microscope, the investments are in a growth period as asset managers who offer the products seek to market their advantages to advisors and investors.

With NATO and Russia at loggerheads over a civil war in Ukraine, Britain facing the possible secession of Scotland and the Euro sinking, it might seem odd to think about investing client assets in Europe. But think again, some experts say.

With domestic oil and gas production forecasts buoyed by fracking extracting technologies, many investors have begun to seek new ways to refine their asset portfolios so they bolster efforts to help the earth achieve sustainability.

Advisors need a global outlook to best serve their clients. International travel can help achieve such a vision meaningfully.

While industry growth reveals the continued adoption of ETFs and their impact on distribution strategies, a closer look also uncovers operational pain points and the need for asset managers to re-evaluate their ETF and mutual fund product lines.

Israel and Gaza. Russia and the Ukraine. When does smart money bet on the conflicts subsiding?

Frontier markets exhibit the same signs of possible profitability that could be found a decade ago in emerging markets.

If Scotland votes for independence from the U.K., will that bolster or threaten the Scottish economy? What could it mean for ex-pat clients?