Investments

Asset managers may need to reassess the assumption that’s become widely held in recent years: that inflation is dead.

In some cases, workers who have received severance pay have the option of investing the money for retirement and other long-term goals.

Turning loss into profit in down markets can seem like magic to some clients.

“Recent further Fed action from COVID-19 seems to put another layer on a near-40-year bond bull market,” an expert says.

The problem was from a bug related to an external software provider.

“The data that the market typically relies on is too slow to keep up with how rapidly the situation has been changing," says Richard Bernstein Advisors' deputy CIO.

The relief allows funds to obtain cash infusions through collateralized loans until the end of June.

Emulating traditional advisors, digital advisors are moving in the direction of planning offerings and advisor-client contact (albeit virtual).

Seeing the size and variation in average returns among a variety of asset classes offers perspective for those who are anxious.

The asset manager will serve “as a third-party vendor to operationalize these purchases and transact with the primary dealers,” the New York Fed said.

The iShares fund saw the second-biggest inflow in its 18-year history after the central bank said it would begin buying corporate bonds and credit ETFs.

After becoming unmoored in recent weeks as bond market liquidity dried up, funds that stand to benefit from the central bank’s buying are now rallying.

If they plan to use them for current spending, “then the timing of the distribution would not matter for tax purposes,” an expert writes.

Morningstar finds that active managers have left a lot to be desired.

Bear markets come with checklists of savvy moves to make for investment portfolios.

In need-for-speed markets lashed by the spreading coronavirus, this breed of rules-based trading is paying off.

The funds are trading at staggering discounts to their net asset values in what some have dubbed an “illiquidity doom loop.”

Five of the top seven performers this year carry AA ratings.

Market plunges are normal and stocks are likely to recover and earn a positive return over the long term, says an expert.

The fund paid out about $150 billion in redemptions Thursday, all in cash.