Financial advisors who are also brokers are reimbursed by mutual fund companies when one of their clients invests in a fund the company sponsors. In such cases, the financial advisor receives a trailer fee, which is a fixed percentage of the client’s investment in a mutual fund, as long as the client’s money remains invested
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You may want to put a bit more money aside for mom’s carnations this Sunday. Because, just like everything else, flowers are getting more expensive.  For Mother’s Day on May 9, the National Federation of Retailers, a trade organization, predicts that people will spend up to $31.7 billion, up 12% on last year. The group
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EV upstart Lucid Motors (NASDAQ:LCID) delivered a strong earnings beat with its first-quarter results. Investors were lackadaisical, though, as LCID stock shed close to 12% of its value on its post-earnings sell-off. Analysts were expecting the EV firm to lose 31 cents per share on sales of $55.6 million. However, actual results came in significantly
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Business development companies (or BDCs) offer generous yields to income investors. Great Elm Capital (GECC) is a BDC that makes loans and middle market investments. Newtek Business Service (NEWT) provides financial and business services to small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S. Capital Southwest (CSWC) offers credit and private equity investments in middle market companies,
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With SoFi (NASDAQ:SOFI) likely to continue to be hurt by the Biden administration’s policies on student loans and the company still facing many other tough challenges, I am still recommending that investors sell SOFI stock. As Seeking Alpha columnist Business Quant explained in a recent column on SOFI stock, the moratoriums on student loan payments
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Everyone knows that investment banking is a lucrative field. Entry-level jobs quickly provide six-figure salaries. Senior investment bankers earn tens of millions of dollars every year. Getting to the top of this field is a multi-step process that requires a combination of education, ambition, hard work, skill, experience, connections, and sometimes more than a little
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You’re supposed to receive a receipt for everything you purchase, but do you get a receipt for what might be your largest monthly expense? If you’re renting, you might be paying tens of thousands of dollars annually and without having actual proof that you paid anything at all. There are plenty of reasons why you
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By Maria Martinez German industrial production fell sharply in March due to an intensification in supply-chain problems and higher input prices. Total industrial output–comprising production in manufacturing, energy and construction–fell 3.9% in March compared with the previous month in calendar-adjusted terms, statistics office Destatis said Friday. Economists polled by The Wall Street Journal had forecast
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ChargePoint (NYSE:CHPT) is a California-based company that provides electric vehicle (EV) charging networks and charging solutions. The company went public via a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) and was initially highly popular with traders. CHPT stock shot up as high as $45 in late 2020 following the launch of its SPAC deal. Since then, however, ChargePoint has
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