Merion Wealth Partners has created an advisor-owned, independent wealth management firm it says is unlike the competition.
Investors continued the gold rush last year, but how they invested varies.
Several kinds of ETFs should benefit if prices and interest rates begin to rise.
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Oil dropped from a two-year high as concern eased that supplies through the Suez Canal may be disrupted by unrest in Egypt.
Junk bonds in Asian countries where infrastructure spending is fueling growth, such as Indonesia, should offer the best returns in 2011.
Since the financial crisis, there has been a lot more interest in ethics in finance, and the theory and practice of Islamic finance is attracting attention.
Why managed futures make sense for portfolios.
A partnership between Southern Company and Ted Turner has led to one of the nation's largest solar plants, serving 9,000 homes.
Retirement plan advisors soon may be required to scrutinize target-date funds more closely.
Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason is helping an investment group that aims to buy $150 million worth of classic cars and make annual returns of 15 percent.
One of the trends in the increasingly popular alternative investment space is a preference for alternative mutual funds instead of traditional hedge funds, according to a new Morningstar survey.
The combined market value of U.S. ETFs surpassed $1 trillion for the first time in 2010, while ETFs investing in emerging markets and bonds receiving the most new money.
Fidelity and E*Trade are starting unified managed accounts for individual investors who want someone else to manage their money.
Record amounts are pouring into floating-rate loan funds as protection from the threat of rising interest rates, and advisors are among those rotating away from traditional fixed income.
Ford Motor Co. Executive Chairman Bill Ford Jr. faced ridicule and resistance over the years for suggesting the automaker needed to go green to survive. And that was from inside his own company.
U.S.-investment dollars are flowing to emerging markets where economies are booming and, in the eyes of some, the outlook for the local currency is better.
Stock-price swings should narrow this year as the economic recovery boosts equities, says Goldman Sachs.
A price war is slashing expenses to the bone on index-tracking exchange-traded funds and mutual funds. And that suits Harold Evensky fine.
A unit of Ameriprise Financial that is already under fire from regulators for selling allegedly fraudulent private placements is now facing the wrath of securities arbitrators.