baby boomers

As has been widely documented, exchange-traded funds are on a torrid pace of asset gathering this year. Through the first seven months of 2017, U.S.-listed ETFs added $191 billion in new assets, easily positioning the asset class to topple the inflows record set in 2016. And as has been previously...

Investors poured $47 billion into U.S.-listed exchange-traded products, including exchange-traded funds, last month. That brought U.S. ETF assets to another record assets under management tally of $2.758 trillion. Millennial investors are proving to be big drivers of U.S. ETF growth. Net flows to...

It's officially the second month of the year, and those who made New Year's resolutions are a full 31 days into their new routines. Or, are they? According to research conducted by the University of Scranton, 46 percent of people who made New Year's resolutions have abandoned their...

As a demographic firmly situated between aging parents and increasingly independent children, members of the Sandwich Generation frequently feel the financial squeeze from both ends of the equation. Although middle age is often glamorized as an age of freedom, with the apron strings severed and...

Most Americans will experience a psychological event sometime between their late thirties and late fifties where, due to both physical/mental changes and environmental transitions, a sense of instability or unrest settles in. Unaffectionately called the "Midlife Crisis," this phenomenon...

Various demographics are driving the growth of the U.S. exchange-traded funds industry, but issuers of such products seem particularly enamored by Baby Boomers and Millennials. Fortunately for ETF issuers, Millennials are embracing ETFs in significant fashion. As Benzinga reported in September,...

The image of Thanksgiving has begun to shift within the last few decades. The construction-paper clad school children parading as pilgrims and Native Americans may remain as staples of the holiday, and turkey and stuffing are unlikely to disappear from the family table. However, with the...

When it comes to retirement, saving is key. Many people save in the years leading up to their retirement in order to ensure that they can live out the rest of their days comfortably without depending on a salary. However, living on a finite amount of money can be daunting, making budgeting during...

Budgeting is often handled as a one-and-done practice, with all of the outlining and planning taking place only once. This prevailing notion overlooks how transient life is. With every passing day, your life changes – if you do not expect to be the same person you were 10 years ago, why...

While the elusive millennial generation has proven to be a challenge for up-and-coming businesses that hope to capture the attention of a big part of the spending population, some firms are turning back to the original "big spenders"— baby boomers. While an aging population may...

On December 4, RCS Capital Corporation (NYSE: RCAP) announced that it had settled the litigation with American Realty Capital Properties, Inc. (NADSAQ: ARCP) over the aborted deal to acquire ARCP's Cole Capital Advisors' business unit. Coincidentally, on December 3, RCS Capital CEO Mike...

Whether or not you are a millennial or have one at home, you are probably aware of the current trend of housing oversized occupants in the proverbial parents’ nest. It has become such a common phenomenon that baby boomer’s children moving back in with their parents are endearingly...

During the past decade or so, investors in this leading health care REIT have been rewarded with outsized gains. What do Q3 earnings and future plans tell investors moving forward? Past Performance The Ventas, Inc. (NYSE: VTR) website displays a calculated 10-year total shareholder return of...

It’s no secret that Sears (NASDAQ: SHLD) is struggling. Sears, as well as its subsidiary Kmart, finds itself in a precarious situation that is fairly simple to understand: few people want to shop at its stores. Consider three big segments of consumers: Baby Boomers (76 million people born...