Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Learn about the Merton Model for evaluating corporate credit risk, developed by Robert Merton in 1974, and used by analysts ...

Rising tensions in the Middle East have renewed investor interest in volatility ETFs, which are designed to increase in value as expected market volatility rises. VIX-linked ETFs track short-term ...

Changing the law or pressuring regulators does not change the underlying economics. Interest rates are not arbitrary numbers set to frustrate consumers. They are prices, and like all prices, they ...

F/m US Treasury 3 Month Bill ETF (TBIL) offers direct, low-risk exposure to short-term US Treasury yields, closely tracking the 3-month bill rate. TBIL’s yield is highly sensitive to Federal Reserve ...