The past year's small-cap stock rally may well be spent, but a raft of new exchange-traded funds with bullish marketing materials suggest fund companies still smell opportunity.
The Vanguard Group is now offering its brokerage clients commission-free transactions across its line of exchange-traded funds.
Activist shareholders are working to get some public gas drilling companies to report on the environmental impact of a controversial means of extracting natural gas.
A majority of financial advisors look toward their peers when trying to find ways to improve their businesses, according to a new survey.
Social media networks are becoming an increasingly important tool for individual investors, according to a new report.
Congress is considering legislation that would enable banks to directly offer FDIC-insured 529 college savings products.
In recent years, financial advisors have strongly encouraged investors to think globally. But the debt crisis in Southern Europe threatens to put a sudden halt to such a diversified strategy.
Among mutual funds, the pain from the recent market downturn was felt far and wide-but not shared equally. The same can be said of the relief experienced so far in the recovery.
Forum Financial Management LLC and Pinnacle Wealth Management concluded a merger today, forming a wealth management firm with more than $500 million in assets under management.
For many Americans, financial success is not defined by what you have, but what you don't owe, according to a new survey.
The author of a paper that looks at how to determine optimal leverage in an investment portfolio is the 2010 first-place winner of a $10,000 award for advancements in active management.
Finra remains concerned about the inappropriate sale of annuities to seniors, and its examinations of firms continue to raise red flags on the issue.
Lloyd Blankfein's support of a fiduciary standard for retail brokers now seems like nothing more than a bone thrown at financial reformers.
A proposed Finra rule change would mean brokers and brokerages couldn't plead poverty as an excuse to keep their securities licenses when they don't make good on arbitration awards.
Affluent Americans now have more assets in IRAs than in employer-sponsored retirement plans, according to a report by Cogent Research.
Ameriprise Financial Inc.'s Advice and Wealth Management division reported a surge in pretax income to $51 million for the first quarter of 2010, compared to a pretax loss a year ago.
The Hispanic community is going to grow for years to come. Here are some tips on how to cultivate Hispanics as clients.
All may not be lost for those people who are well into their fifties and have not begun saving for retirement, but it is going to take some serious sacrifices, says a T. Rowe Price planner.
Wells Fargo may begin recruiting independent registered investment advisors.
More of the wealthy are turning to community investments for some of their financial and social returns.