Romantic love might seem like a mystery, but it's not really, at least most of the time — researchers have done their best to figure out what exactly it is that draws people together. Psychologists ...

When boiled down to the basics, investing is a combination of risk and return. These two seemingly simple variables are both incredibly complex and challenging to forecast. Over the last two decades, ...

Betting on different parts of the market is tricky business. That’s one takeaway from a “Periodic Table” of calendar-year returns for Morningstar Factor Indexes.* In any given year, a different group ...

Human factors (also referred to as human factors psychology and human factors engineering) is an applied field of study that examines human abilities, limitations, behaviors, and processes in order to ...

James Chen, CMT is an expert trader, investment adviser, and global market strategist. Thomas J. Brock is a CFA and CPA with more than 20 years of experience in various areas including investing, ...

Chicago Booth’s Eugene F. Fama and Dartmouth’s Kenneth R. French pioneered the use of factors to explain average excess returns of stocks and other assets, and they have long maintained that stocks ...