Fixed income

The lineup of exclusively short-duration fixed-income products, taxable and municipal, still managed an overall gain.

The top 20 performers nearly doubled the gains of their peers over the period.

In the real world and increasingly online, Black financial enthusiasts are pushing their followers to take bolder steps to create wealth.

Investors are pouring money into U.S. listed products as stocks continue to reach all-time highs and the economic recovery heats up.

Selective bets on undervalued stocks are paying off as unloved value and cyclical strategies fall into favor.

“Inflation, currently below 2%, is not going to be below 2% in the next few months,” the retired bond king said.

Returns by funds from Vanguard, BlackRock and DFA that use the strategy have outpaced global bonds in recent years, but underperformed stocks.

Despite low levels of understanding, 75% of people who know about the vehicles still said they were at least somewhat interested in investing in them.

Due to declining returns from bonds, the model 60/40 portfolio may eke out real returns of just 1%-2% a year over the next decade, said Lim Chow Kiat, chief executive officer of GIC.

Some familiar names top the list for these investors who kept about 35% of their brokerage assets in equities.

Spooked by rising bond yields, traders punished the pricier parts of the equity market last week, including many of the fund's top holdings.

The impact of lockstep moves in bonds and stocks can be seen in sophisticated portfolio strategies such as risk parity, experts say.

Self-directed investors have opened more new accounts at the firm in 2021 than in the third and fourth quarters combined.

Meme stock traders took their latest cues from a cryptic tweet and favorable short-seller report.

The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation is offering a blueprint for speeding up the settlement process.

Naked short selling is one possible cause.

Both were adamant with House Democrats that their businesses have helped small-time investors access markets that were long the domain of Wall Street.

In the early part of the last decade, critics’ angst focused on how dark pools were siphoning business from Wall Street. Then came the pandemic.

New account signups at the Chinese-owned brokerage were 1,548% higher than the seven-day average in January.

So far this month, an average of 99 billion shares in companies that don’t trade on classic exchanges have changed hands each day.