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Jan. 10, 2021 6:56 pm ET Do you care if a clerk at the drugstore gives you change in one $10 bill or two $5 bills? Are you more reluctant to spend hard-earned dollars than windfall dollars? Do you distinguish the “income” dollars paid as dividends on your stock from the “capital” dollars of the value of stock itself? Rational investors answer “no” to each of the three questions. After all, money is money, and rational investors can easily distinguish between the substance of money and its form. Hard-earned dollars and capital dollars are no greener than windfall dollars...

U.S.-Stock Funds Rose 19.1% in a Grueling 2020 The average is less than it was in 2019, but it could be seen as more impressive considering what the economy and markets had to overcome last year Stock-fund investors are enjoying gains, but are also cautious. That’s why they have been sending billions of dollars to bond funds. Illustration: Giacomo Bagnara By William Power For a second straight year, stock-fund investors pocketed big gains. But their fingers are crossed. Powered by a 19.0% rally in the fourth quarter, the average diversified U...

Listed stockbroker and investment house Barita Investments Limited blew past the $2 billion mark in profits, its 2020 year-end financials show. For the year ending September 30, 2020, Barita posted net profits of $2.7 billion, just over $1 billion or approximately 60 per cent more than the $1.7 billion it recorded in 2019. Profit was only one of several growth metrics for Barita in a performance that defied a major economic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic and significant retreat by the equities market for the nine months of calendar year 2020 included in its financials. The big profits ca...

Order Reprints Print Article A new Securities and Exchange Commission rule sets limits on leverage. Above, the SEC’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Zach Gibson/Bloomberg Text size One thing that the existence of leveraged funds proves is that if investors want something, chances are the financial-services industry will find a way to provide it, even if it means bending the rules. For over a decade, funds have been able to do an end-run around leverage restrictions by employing swaps and other derivatives—financial contracts that can amplify an investor’s e...

December 12, 2020 Pixabay Investing needn’t be expensive or difficult. Here’s how you can start investing in Singapore below $100 a month. SingSaver’s recently concluded survey uncovered some interesting findings. It turns out that Singaporeans of the millennial generation, and their even younger successors (Gen Z), actually pay a great deal of attention to saving and investing. Across a total of 1,000 responses, 85 per cent of Gen Zs (18 – 23) and 41 per cent of Millennials (24 – 39) reported starting saving as early as age 22. Even more encouragingly, a whopping 80 per cent report...