“Follow the Fed” has proven to be a relatively simple and successful investment strategy, but keeping up with the latest developments at our nation’s central bank isn’t as straightforward as it used to be.

Face-to-face client meetings are a thing again in the Marks Group office. Oftentimes, those start with an exasperated retelling of trying times experienced during the pandemic, after which we usually conclude by saying, “At least the market is up!”

It’s been awhile since the stock market went on sale, but investors once again have a choice to make.

Defining inflation is easy enough: It’s what happens when things become more expensive than they used to be. Measuring inflation and its effect on financial markets is not as straightforward.

Traditional asset allocation models suggest that as investors get older (and wealthier), it’s appropriate for their investment portfolios to become less risky. That usually means more money in conservative assets such as bonds and cash. But in this new economic

Billionaire entrepreneur and Tesla founder Elon Musk went out of his way to mention his favorite cryptocurrency multiple times when hosting “Saturday Night Live” recently. This publicity stunt perfectly captured the current debate: Are cryptocurrencies worthy of prime-time attention? Or

For the first time in a long time, optimism is everywhere, and it’s easy to understand why.

Pick a benchmark, any benchmark, for U.S. stocks. Now explain why you chose that one, how it’s built, and why it accurately reflects the market. That suggestion is straightforward enough. The answers? Not nearly as simple.

These days in financial news, politics grab all the headlines, the Fed gets all the credit and coronavirus takes all the blame. With those three subjects dominating the media, nobody seems to have much interest in earnings.