A firmer start is ahead for stocks. Investors seem to be perking up after Apple spoiled the mood some on Monday via a report it plans to slow its hiring roll. If true, Apple AAPL, +2.39% has good comp...
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Apollo’s Stock Is Expected to Rise. Here’s Why.
Apollo Global Management is the most misunderstood of the publicly traded alternative asset managers. But the stock could represent significant upside for those who wish to take a look, according to R...
Fayez Sarofim, Buffett-Style Investor and Art Collector, Dies at 93
Fayez Sarofim, an Egyptian immigrant who built a successful investment firm with an approach similar to Warren Buffett’s, died in Houston on Saturday at age 93. Sarofim, who became a billionaire, had ...
Americans are still saving for retirement — and becoming 401(k) millionaires
Americans may be afraid to look at their retirement accounts thanks to stock market volatility, but many investors are still staying the course, according to Fidelity Investments’ most recent data rel...
Worried about a recession? Here’s how to prepare your portfolio
FG Trade | iStock | Getty Images More from FA Playbook: Here’s a look at other stories impacting the financial advisor business. “We all understand that markets go through cycles and reces...
What Bitcoin Could Be Worth to Fidelity. You’ll Be Surprised.
Text size Fidelity’s push into Bitcoin is raising controversy but could be lucrative for the company. Dreamstime.com Fidelity Investments shocked the retirement industry last month with a move t...
Here’s how much cash retirees need to weather a stock market downturn
Luminola | E+ | Getty Images Amid high inflation and rising interest rates, there are fears of a prolonged stock market downturn, and some retirees may be vulnerable without a cushion of cash, financi...
Annaly Capital to Sell Middle- Market Lending Portfolio to Ares for About $2.4 Billion
Text size Ares currently has $314 billion assets under management, up from $25 billion in 2008. Dreamstime Ares Management Corp said Monday that it agreed to buy the middle-market lending portfolio of...
BlackRock Stock Has Slid. Director William E. Ford Scooped Up Shares.
BlackRock stock has tumbled this year, and director William E. Ford, the chairman and CEO of investment firm General Atlantic, scooped up shares of the asset manager on the open market. BlackRock (tic...
Opinion: This will be a year for stock market traders — here are 12 companies to favor, says 40-year investing veteran Bob Doll
If you’re relatively new to investing, and you think 2022 has been a year from hell, imagine being in the stock market for over 40 years. That would’ve put you through the Great Financial Crisis in 20...
Oil Service Stocks Are Gaining Steam. These Are the Ones to Watch.
Text size Prices and margins are improving for companies like Haliburton. Dreamstime Oil services and equipment companies slimmed down after the last oil bust, and that’s left them looking lean as oil...
Is the Stock Market Open Today? Here Are Hours for Easter Monday 2022.
Text size Dreamstime U.S. investors eager to trade after the holiday weekend will have plenty of news to digest, thanks to corporate earnings. More than 100 companies are slated to report this week—an...
Get ready for a ‘new world order’ that drives stocks and bonds: BlackRock
It’s an end of an era. That’s BlackRocks Inc.’s BLK, +1.62% Tony DeSpirito, chief investment officer in the U.S. fundamental equities division of the world’s largest asset manager, telling investors t...
What’s Holding Back Actively Managed ETFs
Text size Dreamstime Fidelity and T. Rowe Price run some excellent actively managed mutual funds. Chances are you will never see them in ETF form. Many new active exchange-traded funds have launched s...
Why a ‘1970s-style’ inflation spiral is a growing threat, according to a major hedge fund
One of the world’s largest macro hedge funds sees a rising risk of a 1970s-type wage-price spiral, according to a Thursday news report. “This combination of high inflation, tight labour markets, and u...
China’s wealthy moving money to Singapore amid common prosperity push
As Beijing pushes for “common prosperity” and political turmoil threatens Hong Kong, Singapore has become a safe harbor for some of the region’s wealthiest tycoons and their families...
Larry Fink says globalization is over — Here’s what it means for the markets
BlackRock founder Larry Fink declared that the Russia-Ukraine war is bringing the era of globalization to an end, but investors should keep in mind that the global economy and the financial system can...
Edward ‘Ned’ Johnson, Former Fidelity CEO and Fund Pioneer, Dies
Text size Edward “‘Ned” Johnson III built Fidelity Investments into a giant financial services firm. Neal Hamberg/Bloomberg News Edward “Ned” Johnson III, who built Fidelity Investme...
This veteran money manager has seen it all. And these 19 dividend stocks pass his rigorous quality screen right now.
Lewis Altfest’s time in the finance industry spans seven decades. He has some words of advice for investors who aren’t used to stomach-churning stock-price moves. He founded Altfest Personal Wealth Ma...