Investors don’t have to settle for scraps anymore now that interest rates are rising

In recent years, investors often got rewarded for taking reckless risks, but in unforgiving markets, it’s harder to recover from mistakes.

There’s a new movement afoot to award stock to rank-and-file employees. Similar efforts have been tried before, and have sometimes left low-wage workers worse off.

Bond investors have been pummeled this year as the central bank has tightened up. Here’s how to think about your portfolio in a period of rising interest rates.

Successful investors diversify broadly, avoid unnecessary risk and rarely trade. So why are kids getting rewarded for doing the opposite?

For most of the past decade, investing has required almost no courage at all. That may well be changing.

Trading on the Moscow stock exchange was suspended this past week. It’s the latest reminder to investors that markets aren’t always liquid.

You don’t have to act on your own forecasts about global events. You don’t even have to make any.

Investors need to stop blaming others for their own mistakes. One trick that might help: drafting an explanation of why you failed before your portfolio goes south.

Past stock returns may be the best guide to the future, but they aren’t as reliable as many investors think.