Mortgage investments are secured by real assets; they don’t own them. Mortgage payments are contractual, priority obligations ...

Q: I live in California and read your article earlier this year about a new way for homeowners to tap their equity without selling. I am living off of an annuity, but when that runs out, I want to be ...

Working in the investment world, I’ve learned that “private equity” means different things to different people. For some, it signals high risk. For others, it’s a mysterious club reserved only for the ...