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There was a time not long ago when nobody knew what an ETF was. Now, just when you've gotten accustomed to ETFs, you've probably begun hearing a bit of buzz around their cousins, the ETNs: exchange-traded notes. Here's what every investor should know.

Wealth – and the number of wealthy people – declined over the past year. Unsurprisingly, the worldwide recession that has hammered portfolios has caused the number of millionaires in the world to fall. Those that remain generally aren't as rich as they used to be. Among those dethroned...

One of the reasons the U.S. got into the current economic mess is because mortgages were bundled into complex financial vehicles and sold to investors and so on down the road. Everybody profited handsomely, until people started defaulting on their mortgages, which started a chain reaction of...