Investing is about putting money at risk in order to earn a return. In theory, the more risk an investor is willing to accept, the more returns he or she should expect to earn to compensate for the ...

Any prolonged period of higher interest rates means that banks must monitor declining deposits carefully, as depositors seek higher-yielding alternatives elsewhere. Rate increases in the eurozone have ...

One major takeaway from the recent financial crisis is the key role of liquidity. Without the presence of many willing buyers and sellers, we have seen how poorly markets function. When it comes to ...

Alternative investments such as private real estate create a liquidity challenge for plan sponsors, but advisers can help find solutions, or steer toward other non-traditional options altogether. One ...

Collectibles, which range from paintings and classic cars to wine and stamps, constitute a large yet understudied asset class. I estimate the total float of all collectibles at $18.582 trillion in ...

"The interval fund structure is well suited to the municipal market throughout a cycle," said Alex Petrone, Rockefeller Asset Management's director of fixed income. A trio of interval funds new to the ...

Apparently yielding to the global demand for a change in the basis for calculating Companies' Income Tax for insurance firms, the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) has included liquidity ...

In response to the global financial crisis that started in August 2007, central banks provided extraordinary amounts of liquidity to the financial system. To investigate the effect of central bank ...