The Securities and Exchange Commission proposed rules on Monday that would require publicly traded companies to disclose a variety of climate-related risks and metrics, including greenhouse gas emissions. The reason is plain: Investors want more information about how companies are dealing with climate change, and it’s the SEC’s job to get it for them.
It has been a rough several months for U.S. stocks. While broad market averages are down, they obscure the extent of the wreckage. Not even the technology-heavy Nasdaq Composite Index, which has tumbled more than the better-known S&P 500 Index and Dow Jones Industrial Average, tells the whole story.
Cryptocurrencies may be all the rage, but good luck figuring out how they fit in a portfolio.
U.S. wages are rising after decades of stagnation. And yet, by all indications, income inequality in the U.S. is the highest ever and growing, and tens of millions of full-time workers still fail to earn a living wage.
Wall Street is trying to bottle ESG, but ESG has other ideas.
For financial advisers, cryptocurrencies just might be internet 2.0.
The battle between mutual funds and exchange-traded funds is over. ETFs won.
If financial regulators want to continue protecting investors as new technologies like cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens proliferate, they’ll need to give investors the tools to protect themselves.
A debate rages on whether ordinary investors should have equal access to financial markets.
A 60/40 portfolio of global stocks and bonds has returned a respectable 8.4% annually over the past five years, but also a heartbreaking 6.2 percentage points a year less than the S&P 500. And the difference seems to be all investors care about.
A simple mix of stocks and short to medium-term bonds is probably a better bet than investments widely peddled as inflation protection.
Many Americans are wondering whether college is worth the enormous sacrifice, and they just might conclude that there must be a better way.
A look at recent downturns suggests that their fears are overdone.
