Topic: Investment Funds

Made to Stick: The Myth of Mutual Funds

Why we don't always believe the truth.READ»

• Doing What Feels Right Despite the Evidence
• 10 Tips for Making Sensible Investments

Hennion and Walsh Your Q&A: How Do Funds Use Leverage?

Kevin D. Mahn is a managing director and chief investment officer at Hennion & Walsh. "One has to be careful to control the amount of leveraged exposure that one has not only to a given asset class, sector, style or market cap but also within one's portfolio as a whole."READ»

Hennion and Walsh News: Short FinancialETFs Slide After Short-selling Ban

"ETFs will matter more than they ever have now through Oct 2," said Kevin Mahn, Managing Director of Hennion & Walsh, a New Jersey-based brokerage. "It gives the investor the ability to short through sector as opposed to a specific stock."READ»

Money Changers: Eight Startups Brimming With Hope for the Financial Industry

"We were told to trust these institutions, and we did," says Mitch Tuchman. "We trusted Madoff. We trusted AIG. And now we've lost most of our life savings." Tuchman, though, is not an angry victim of some Ponzi scheme or shady ...READ»

East versus West Coast

Are we really so different in East versus West coast towns of America? Why is it so? Read more to find out.READ»

BROKERS & DEALERS

            A broker is defined as anyone who makes securities transactions for others. (The exception to this is a bank.) A dealer is defined as someone who buys and ...READ»