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Despite its reputation as a perennial long shot in the race for investment performance, gold has once again come through with a respectable return this year. At the time of this writing the price of gold has increased by 12.3 percent so far this year...

In today’s world of excessive market volatility amid a seemingly endless credit crisis, investors are seeking two things: yield and safety. But with capital markets constantly in flux, no investments are completely safe and the ones that appear safe...

That is the question! Or at least according to how investors have been reacting lately. Growing fear that the inconclusive Greek election earlier this month may have placed the troubled nation on a path towards exiting the euro zone drove stock and ...

Risk markets seem to be back to their old tricks. After a few months of what appeared to be much steadier forward progress during the first quarter of this year, equity markets have seen a noticeable increase in volatility. Last Tuesday, the Dow Jon...

When choosing an investment strategy, liquidity should be an integral component of the decision-making process and a cornerstone of a portfolio’s asset allocation. And yet, despite the importance of being able to convert your assets to cash when nee...

Unfortunately, things do not look a whole lot brighter for investors yearning for bigger bond coupons in today’s yield-starved world of fixed income investing. This past week, in fact, the US Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) met for its regular ...

For most investors 2011 will be a year they may wish to forget. After a very promising start where stocks and commodities steadily gained in price, global risk markets were whipsawed over the summer months and into the fall as the deteriorating econo...

Will the Grinch steal Christmas for investors this year? Investors looking for a robust Christmas season to juice retail sales and spur the languishing economy might need a telescope this year. Many economists agree that the ongoing political wrangl...

On October 14th, the ‘Occupy Wall Street’ protesters were up early in Milan where student demonstrators broke into the local Goldman Sachs building before daybreak until police were eventually able to throw them out. Just down the street, a 36 foot ...