Ben is the former Retirement and Investing Editor for Forbes Advisor. With two decades of business and finance journalism experience, Ben has covered breaking market news, written on equity markets ...

Persuaded that lax regulation of financial derivatives contributed to the 2008 financial crisis, policymakers in Congress and the Obama Administration have adopted a knee-jerk solution: regulate ...

Derivatives offer a tool to mitigate financial risk by hedging against adverse price movements. Investors use derivatives to control large asset amounts with minimal investments, amplifying gains but ...

Derivatives are financial instruments that "derive" (hence the name) their value from an underlying asset. That underlying asset can be stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, even market indexes. For ...

Reporting from Washington — Senators hoping to pass a sweeping overhaul of financial regulations this week are frantically trying to resolve tough — and controversial — provisions limiting, regulating ...

Derivatives, as the name implies, are financial contracts which call for money to change hands at some point in the future, with the amount to be determined by reference to other items, such as share ...

Demanding Diversity Through Uniformity“Derivatives” have gone from being the hottest thing on Wall Street to being the hottest thing in Washington. Indeed, President Obama -- who mentioned them no ...

The central bank in Moscow is going to give Russian investors access to derivative instruments based directly on ...

If you took an opinion poll and asked Americans what they considered the biggest threat to the world economy to be, how many of them do you think would give "derivatives" as an answer? But the truth ...

President Obama called Wednesday for more oversight of derivatives — the financial products that helped sink insurance giant AIG — when he met with Congressional leaders Wednesday at the White House ...

“Derivatives” have gone from being the hottest thing on Wall Street to being the hottest thing in Washington. Indeed, President Obama-- who mentioned them no fewer than three times during Thursday’s ...