With the equity markets down between 5 and 10 percent for these past two months (depending your index of choice), this January and February have been one of the worst starts to a year in decades. All ...

As many financial planners have discovered over the past few years, unsettled markets mean many nervous phone calls and emails from clients. Investors want to know why their investments may be down ...

Emily Putnam-Hornstein ([email protected]) is director of the Children’s Data Network, University of Southern California, in Los Angeles. Mark Ghaly is secretary of the California Health and Human ...