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A new classification system from Morningstar is intended to help advisors and investors better identify, compare and analyze these active exchange-traded products.

Some managers may out-perform short-term, but "you can't tell good luck from good skill, or bad luck from bad skill," the Nobel winner says.

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

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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.

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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.

Commodities fell to the lowest level in more than five years on signs demand growth is weakening in China, the biggest consumer of energy and metals, and on speculation U.S. borrowing costs may rise next year.

As the Federal Reserve winds down its third round of unprecedented stimulus, one thing has become increasingly clear in the bond market: the U.S. economy just isn’t going to grow enough to upend demand for Treasuries.

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In the past, most dividend payments have continued, and many increased, even when stock prices have fallen.

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.

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Michael Aronstein, a portfolio manager for Marketfield Asset Management, says the Fed moves have forced advisors to rethink the way they use bonds in a portfolio.

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

During a time period while stock markets and housing values were on the rise, wealth and income fell for Americans aged 45 to 64, according to a new study from the Federal Reserve.