Hand models use their fingers, palms, and wrists to promote a wide range of products, from high-end jewelry to everyday items. But becoming a hand model isn’t just a matter of having great digits. To ...

More financial advisors are teaming up with model portfolio providers to use their models as a foundation for customization. Custom model portfolios can be adjusted to meet the specific preferences of ...

Assets under management, tied to model portfolios, are forecast to exceed $10 trillion by 2025. Some reasons for the category’s growth include increasing awareness and comfort among clients, a wider ...

I present a diversified 25-position model portfolio focused on income, blending BDCs, MLPs, CEFs, REITs, and option-income funds for stability and growth. Each security is equally weighted (4%), ...

Assets in model portfolios likely reached $5.1 trillion at the end of 2023 as financial advisers increasingly embrace these off-the-shelf investment strategies, according to Broadridge Financial ...

Vanguard is easy to recommend as a destination for investors aiming to simplify their financial lives by investing with a single firm. Morningstar's analyst team gives the firm an A rating for ...

Wayne Duggan has a decade of experience covering breaking market news and providing analysis and commentary related to popular stocks. Wayne is a senior contributor for U.S. News & World Report and a ...

Previous generations turned to financial advisors mostly for stock picking. Later, advisors began custom crafting portfolios using mutual funds. That era of laser-focused attention on custom ...

The amount of assets moving into model portfolios has surged in recent years, illustrating their growing popularity among financial advisors, according to Morningstar. Third-party model portfolios ...

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 ...

Risk modeling comes in varying shapes and sizes throughout the financial world. Having previously worked as a derivatives trader on the Chicago Board Options Exchange and as a senior risk analyst, I ...