Psychology

For more than two decades, passive investing has been a humble idea successfully marketed to the retail audience. It was a set-and-forget approach – not trying to outsmart the market but simply owning it. Now, according to a growing camp of market critics, passive funds have become something far...

The launch of Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPhone may have contributed significantly to America's declining birth rate, according to a new working paper published earlier this month by the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). The study found that smartphone adoption may explain a...