Learn what financial instruments are, explore major types and asset classes, and understand how they work in investing, trading, and portfolio construction.

There’s a broad range of assets out there that you can invest in. And while they’re largely different, many of them fall into specific asset classes. An asset class is a category or grouping of ...

Understanding the correlation between various asset classes is crucial for investors aiming to build a diversified investment portfolio. Correlation measures the statistical relationship between the ...

Take a Financial Advisor Quiz. Asset allocation is the measure of how the investments in your portfolio are divided among different asset types and classes. The idea is to spread your investments ...

Fifty years ago more people would have expected their future selves to have a flying car parked in their driveway than they would have envisioned private assets included in institutional investors' ...

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 ...

Sustainable investors and sustainability-oriented issuers face an asset class data gap. Sustainability standards setters have designed frameworks for public equities because to date, most ESG data and ...

Absolute Return Partners is a London-based investment advisory business. Founded by Niels Jensen in 2002, it focuses on providing bespoke alternative investment solutions to institutional investors.

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 ...

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 ...