Finding Your Margin Investment Sweet Spot
Borrowing to increase profits isn't for the faint of heart, but margin trading can mean big returns.
The History Of Insurance In America
Insurance was a latecomer to the American landscape, largely due to the country's unknown risks.
Warren Buffett: The Road To Riches
Find out how he went from selling soft drinks to buying up companies and making billions of dollars.
Disciplined Strategy Key To High Returns
The strategy you use is less important than how precisely you follow it.
Scenario Analysis Provides Glimpse Of Portfolio Potential
This statistical method estimates how far a stock might fall in a worst-case scenario.
The Risk Of Ruin For Retirees
Your golden years are meant to be stress free. Keep them that way by protecting your assets.
Risk Tolerance Only Tells Half The Story
Just because you're willing to accept a risk, doesn't mean you always should.
Rate Cuts Don't Guarantee Great Returns
Pundits often advise buying after the Fed cuts interest rates, but this advice could cost you.
Volatility's Impact On Market Returns
Find out how to adjust your portfolio when the market fluctuates to increase your potential return.
Make Your Portfolio Safer With Risky Investments
A high-risk security can reduce risk overall. Find out how it works.
Take On Risk With A Margin of Safety
Find out how Mr. Market's mood swings can mean great opportunities for you.
Five Investment Risks Created By Global Warming
Climate-change deniers and believers alike would be wise to prepare for the worst.
Diversification: It's All About (Asset) Class
Frustrated stock pickers rejoice. Asset class selection is simpler and safer.
Eliot Spitzer - Man Of A Thousand Scandals
Learn about the Wall Street scandals Eliot Spitzer prosecuted before perpetrating his own.
Love Around Wall Street
It's not all hearts and flowers, but there's romance in the language of Wall Street!
Measuring And Managing Investment Risk
Risk is inseparable from return. Learm more about these measures and how to balance them.
The Rise Of The Modern Investment Bank
Get to know a little bit about the institutions whose actions help to guide free markets.
All Returns Are Not Created Equal
How much are your investments actually returning? Find out why the method of calculation matters.
Nobel Winners Are Economic Prizes
Before you try to profit from their theories, you should learn about the creators themselves.
January Effect Revives Battered Stocks
Make sure you buy in low to ride this phenomenon for all it's worth.
'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Here's our investing adaptation of an old holiday classic.
Ten Books For The Holidays
We give you a list of informative and entertaining reads that you'll want to share with others this season.
Portfolios Rise From Oblivion To Omnipresence
Consider an investment's "risk"? In the 1930s that was crazy talk.
A Trip Through Index History
Find out how the first market averages were calculated and what they mean for investors today.
Do-It-Yourself Analyst Predictions
Regular investors can build their own financial models using the mosaic theory.
Owners Can Be Deal Killers In M&A
A merger and acquisition advisor is often the best choice when selling companies.
The Green Marketing Machine
Don't let corporations greenwash their dirty laundry. Learn how to spot a phony.
Can Business Evolve In A Green World?
Learn how global warming is starting to heat up America's corporate climate.
Change The World One Investment At A Time
Socially responsible investing allows you to express your political views in an unlikely way.
For Companies, Green Is The New Black
Sustainability and reducing environmental impact are hot corporate objectives. Find out why.
Basel II Accord To Guard Against Financial Shocks
Problems with the original accord became evident during the subprime crisis in 2007.
The 5 Most Feared Figures In Finance
Gates, Soros, Icahn, Rockefeller and Morgan caused chills on Wall Street.
Haunting Wall Street: The Halloween Terminology Of Investing
Beware of zombies and Jekyll and Hyde companies! Read about the spooky terms circulating Wall Street.
The Ghouls And Monsters On Wall Street
Learn about some of the creepiest cases of fraud and the characters behind them.
M&A Competition Is Cutthroat For Acquirers
Strategic acquisition is becoming a part of doing business. Meet the key players here.
Can You Predict The Future?
If not, read on to learn how to protect your portfolio from the impact of major world events.
Bettering Your Portfolio With Alpha And Beta
Increase your returns by creating the right balance of both these risk measures.
The Quest For True Value
Learn the strengths and weakness of passive and active management for uncovering the overall market's worth.
The Evolution Of Banking
From coins to credit, find out how the earliest system of money management started.
Private Equity A Trendsetter For Stocks
This funding is one of the forces that drives capital market valuations.
Seeing The Market Through The Trees
Find out how a cat and a ladybug prove markets are both random and efficient.
How The Wild West Markets Were Tamed
The average investor can trade stocks with a sense of security thanks to this Lone Ranger.
Dissecting The Bear Stearns Hedge Fund Collapse
Learn how a deadly mix of greed and leverage cost investors millions.
Cashing In On The Venture Capital Cycle
Find out how VC firms make the market go round, and round, and round.
Top 3 DCF Analysis Pitfalls
This method can be difficult to apply to real-life valuations.
Microfinance Has Major Impact
This growing industry is full of opportunities for the socially conscious investor.
An Inside Look At Internal Rate Of Return
Use this method to choose which project or investment is right for you.
Clean Or Green Technology Investing
Innovations in energy and consumption grow as companies adopt them to reduce costs.
Re-evaluating Emerging Markets
Get the full story on this asset class before you write it off as too risky.
The Intelligent Investor: Benjamin Graham
Learn about the man who taught investing to the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
Investing In China
This emerging market is making strides in regulation and disclosure.
A Guide To Global Investment Performance Standards
Is your investment management firm GIPS compliant? Learn more here.
Modern Portfolio Theory Stats Primer
Learn how to follow the efficient frontier to better returns.
Working With Islamic Finance
There is no division between the spiritual and the secular in this type of socially responsible investing.
Introduction To Monte Carlo Simulation
This technique can reduce uncertainty in estimating future outcomes.
Understanding The Sharpe Ratio
This simple ratio will tell you how much that extra return is really worth.
Exploring The Exponentially Weighted Moving Average
Learn how to calculate a metric that improves on simple variance.
The Chinese Wall Protects Against Conflicts Of Interest
After the crash of 1929, this barrier helped define ethical limits, but it did little to prevent fraud.
Accelerating Returns With Continuous Compounding
Learn the natural log and exponential functions used to calculate this value.
Investing Books It Pays To Read
We provide some classic and lesser-known titles to add to your collection.
The Sharpe Ratio Can Oversimplify Risk
When it comes to hedge funds, this measure is not reliable on its own.
Does The Basel Accord Strengthen Banks?
This 1988 agreement sought to decrease the potential for bankruptcy among major international banks.
Monte Carlo Simulation With GBM
Learn to predict future events through a series of random trials.
Find The Right Fit With Probability Distributions
Learn how to illustrate an asset return's sensitivity.
Catch On To The CCAPM
This model smooths over some of CAPM's weaknesses to make sense of risk aversion.
Using Historical Volatility To Gauge Future Risk
Use these calculations to uncover the risk involved in your investments.
Using Logic To Examine Risk
Know your odds before you put your money on the table.
A Clear Look At EBITDA
This measure may have its benefits, but it can also present earnings through rose-colored glasses.
Books Worth Investing In
Kick back and learn something new! These are 10 reads worth adding to your bookshelf.
The Capital Asset Pricing Model: An Overview
CAPM helps you determine what return you deserve for putting your money at risk.
Modern Portfolio Theory: An Overview
See why investors today still follow this set of principles to reduce risk and increase returns through diversification.
Understanding Investor Behavior
Discover how some strange human tendencies can play out in the market, posing the question, are we really rational?
Projected Returns: Honing The Craft
We look at how to forecast long-term returns on the three major asset classes.
Introduction to Value at Risk (VAR) - Part 2
Volatility is not the only way to measure risk. Learn about the "new science of risk management".
Introduction to Value at Risk (VAR) - Part 1
Volatility is not the only way to measure risk. Learn about the "new science of risk management".
The Uses And Limits Of Volatility
Check out how the assumptions of theoretical risk models compare to actual market performance.
Calculating The Equity Risk Premium
See the model in action with real data and evaluate whether its assumptions are valid.
An Overview Of The Equity Risk Premium
Learn how the expected extra return on stocks is measured and why academic studies usually estimate a low premium.
Portfolio Protection In Diversification And Discipline
A diversified portfolio will protect you in a tough market. Get some solid tips here!
Taking A Chance On Behavioral Finance
Curious about how emotions and biases affect the market? Find some useful insight here.
What Is Market Efficiency?
We go over arguments for and against the EMH and how an interpretation of it can influence an investing style and strategy.
The Dynamic Current Ratio
Learn why this ratio may be a good alternative to the current, cash and quick ratios.
