Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Learn what financial instruments are, explore major types and asset classes, and understand how they work in investing, trading, and portfolio construction.

This guideline provides guidance for capitalization, depreciation/amortization and construction in progress of capital assets purchased, constructed or developed ...

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 ...

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 ...

When building an investment portfolio, one of the most important decisions is how to balance real assets and financial assets. Each plays a distinct role: Financial assets like stocks and bonds offer ...

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 ...

More than half (62%) of financial advisors currently allocate between 6% and 25% of clients’ portfolios to alternative asset classes, with (85%) of them expecting “to increase allocations to one or ...

Editor’s note: Read the latest on how the coronavirus is rattling the markets and what investors can do to navigate it. Correlations often tend to increase during periods of market stress, making ...

Dear reader, as 2025, a year of global tumult and volatility, rolls by, Mint's reporters and columnists look around the corner on what is coming in 2026—to help you know what to expect and prepare for ...