Only 8% of Americans surveyed by BNY Investment Management could correctly define fixed-income investing. The remaining 92% got it wrong or admitted they didn't know. Some experts view this as a ...

The top-line takeaway from a BNY Mellon Investment Management national survey on fixed-income investing was stunning: A measly 8% of Americans were able to accurately define fixed-income investments.

Your first step is to define fixed and variable costs. Many businesses follow the accounting principle of categorizing costs that don't vary with sales and production as fixed expenses, regardless of ...

Many businesses make a critical mistake when defining customer value: they treat it as a fluid, ever-changing metric rather than a fixed, measurable figure. For example, I once spoke to a business ...