Base

Most companies that have gone public this year are biotech firms and the first quarter marked the slowest start to IPOs since the last recession. In the current quarter, [could] the fact that companies outside of biotech are eyeing or marching through the IPO door... be a sign of a slow thaw? Words: 724

Investors may not like it, but they do own more stocks. The average investor equity allocation is now back to where it was around the 2007 market peak. This has some people worried that things are getting frothy once again. Maybe they are, but there are some legitimate reasons for the increase in equity allocations by households. Here are 7 of them:

Welcome to Wise Bread's rankings of the top real estate blogs.

Welcome to Wise Bread's rankings of the top investing advice blogs.

Not many people know much about Bitcoin but it is growing and seems set to take over the world of online gambling. Here's why & how.

Trust is obviously a huge aspect of any client relationship in the financialinvesting6 services industry, but there are some red flags people can look for to make sure their outsourced investment advice isn’t coming from a charlatan. Here are four tricks the finance industry plays on their clients.

Discussing the Death Cross in a sensationalistic context is sexy and makes for good financial pornography and conversation over cocktails but that's about all. Here's why.

Market volatility at the beginning of 2016 spurred many investors to seek a safe place to ride out the storm. As is often the case, the stocks they favored lagged in the recovery, and may be less safe than investors think. Let me explain.

Do your own research, but based on these charts, 2016 looks like a good time to accumulate more gold for the long term.

Gold is becoming more and more acceptable in the investment community and especially since interest rates have approached zero and in some countries even gone negative. Until recently no portfolio manager would have mentioned gold and even less recommended it but now the investment profession is starting to discover the liquidity trap and acknowledge the value of cash and, more specifically, gold and its place in a diversified portfolio.