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.

Diversification is a core principle of sound investing. A portfolio that includes assets with different performance characteristics often leads to better risk-adjusted returns than one that relies on ...

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 ...

Commodities are an alternative asset class that can provide a hedge against inflation and diversification away from the more mainstream asset classes. Some examples of commodities include wheat, oil, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...