(MoneyWatch) The Federal Reserve's easy monetary policy has led many investors, especially those who take a cash flow (instead of a total return) approach to their portfolio, on a desperate search for ...

Coming into 2022, the capital markets assumptions from major investment providers were decidedly downbeat. The expected long-term returns for U.S. equities clustered in the low-single-digit range, and ...

Steven Nickolas is a writer and has 10+ years of experience working as a consultant to retail and institutional investors. Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years.

Gordon Scott has been an active investor and technical analyst or 20+ years. He is a Chartered Market Technician (CMT). The nominal rate of return is the amount of money generated by an investment ...

The nominal return is the total percentage gain or loss on an investment before adjusting for inflation. It represents the actual change in the value of an asset over a specific period. The components ...

Lower U.S. equity market returns. Better prospects for non-U.S. stocks. Slightly better--but still low--returns for bonds. Those were some of the commonalities among various investment providers' ...

In order to rationally develop an investment plan you need to estimate long-term returns for the asset classes in which to invest - without doing so you cannot determine how much to allocate to risky ...

Inflation not only erodes the purchasing power of the dollar, it also impacts borrowing costs and real economic returns on investment securities. For this reason, investors are wise to understand and ...