Common asset classes include equities, fixed income, commodities, and real estate. Equities, fixed income, cash and cash equivalents, real estate, commodities, and currencies are examples of asset ...

An asset is anything, tangible or intangible, that has economic value to its owner or could have economic value in the future.

Asset classes are groups of similar investments. The five main asset classes are cash and cash equivalents, fixed-income securities, stocks and equities, funds, and alt investments. Many or all of the ...

Asset managers allocate clients' assets across classes like cash, equities, and alternatives based on goals and risk. Asset management firms earn fees, typically 1% of assets under management, and may ...

Ivanna Hampton: Welcome to Investing Insights. I’m your host, Ivanna Hampton. Different asset classes bring their own diversification benefits and risks to portfolios. Investors looking to hedge their ...

Fifty years ago more people would have expected their future selves to have a flying car parked in their driveway than they would have envisioned private assets included in institutional investors' ...

Sustainable investors and sustainability-oriented issuers face an asset class data gap. Sustainability standards setters have designed frameworks for public equities because to date, most ESG data and ...

Over the last two decades, there has been a significant appreciation in the value of many whiskies. This phenomenon has been particularly true of Scotch and Japanese whiskies and, to a lesser extent, ...

It took more than 30 years for alternative asset classes like venture capital, private equity and hedge funds to become must-have portfolio allocations, but they have finally arrived in force. Private ...

I’m a sucker for contrarian indicators. The market has an entertaining, if infuriating, habit of proving everyone wrong at exactly the point at which it will cost the most people the most money.

Amy Arnott, a portfolio strategist for Morningstar Inc., explains why asset classes like REITs and high-yield bonds may raise a portfolio’s overall level of risk. She also discusses which areas ...