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A new study — “Highlights of Performance Analysis of Options-Based Equity Mutual Funds, CEFs, and ETFs” — analyzed SEC-regulated investment companies that focus on use of exchange-listed options for portfolio management (options-based funds). Key highlights...

It’s hard to miss all the media mentions lately surrounding negative interest rate policy (NIRP). A handful of developed countries across the globe–including Japan–have implemented negative interest rates lately, as the chart below shows, and the Federal...

Federal Reserve (Fed) Chairwoman Janet Yellen’s testimony to Congress this week took a big step toward making clear something investors have assumed for some time: The Fed is on course for raising interest rates. True, that leaves the question of when...

By Russ Koesterich, CFA, BlackRock After declaring inflation all but gone last summer, investors are now deciding that calling the time-of-death might have been a bit premature. Starting in September and accelerating post-election, 10-year inflation...