A diversified investment strategy that seeks to juice returns through leverage is finding new love among big money managers — more than a decade after it blew up during the 2008 financial crisis. The ...

A bold way to bet on financial stocks.

Three straight years of double-digit returns for the S&P 500 have many investors thinking about using leverage to capitalize on these returns. The ETF industry has launched hundreds of new leveraged ...

Leveraged ETFs can be dangerous for most investors unfamiliar with how they work. In certain situations, however, they can be useful.

A leveraged strategy for diversifying investments that crashed spectacularly in the financial crisis is back. This time, the designers say they’ve ironed out the problems. The offering, known as ...

SOXL’s 3x leverage and semiconductor sector focus create far higher risk and volatility than SSO’s broad 2x S&P 500 exposure. SOXL offers a lower expense ratio, but it's suffered a much deeper 5-year ...

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are typically considered to be suitable investments for retail investors who have a hands-off approach. The built-in portfolio diversity inherent to many of these funds ...

There are times when your conviction in an investment is higher than your available capital. These are those times when simply matching the returns of a stock market sector would seem like leaving ...