Exchange-traded funds make it easy to diversify a portfolio and are often easier for investors to buy than their mutual fund counterparts. That’s because they’re traded on an exchange and don’t have ...

Prediction markets may offer a way to isolate and trade these risks directly. While often dismissed as political side bets or curiosities, they have the potential to play a small but meaningful role ...

Just as governments around the world have spent the past year racing to get the coronavirus pandemic under control, we should be racing to contend with a similarly harmful global event: the threat of ...

A diversified portfolio can help you manage risk and achieve long-term financial goals by spreading investments across different asset classes. Your diversification strategy will depend on your ...

Modern portfolio theory dictates that investors should own a variety of unrelated asset types. Pfizer, a top-shelf pharma stock, has attributes that could allow it to serve a variety of roles. However ...

Preferred stock exists somewhere in the middle between equity and debt. It has some of the disadvantages of both, with very little of the upside. Preferred stock funds have not performed as well as ...

Investors typically allocate to MLPs/midstream in an income portfolio, given generous yields and potential diversification benefits. Energy infrastructure can also fit in a real asset sleeve and has ...