Alternative investments

CEO Kunal Kapoor and other speakers explained how the shifting trends shaping the industry mean that advice is getting even more important.

They can be illiquid, pricey and opaque, and some advisors say the performance doesn't justify the hype. Others say the assets can offer meaningful advantages.

Through collaboration with BlackRock, Fidelity Investments, Franklin Templeton and State Street, professionally managed model portfolios with alternative allocations are available via the firm's unified managed accounts.

Net of expenses, many financial advisors and investors could find similar yields and exposure for their portfolios elsewhere, according to a Morningstar study.

While vintage Fenders, Gibsons and Martins can be worth thousands or even millions, advisors caution that collecting guitars should be for the love first and foremost.

A new study explored the benefits of adding timepieces to portfolios of stocks, bonds and gold.

The dilemmas from data, client demand and recruiting could provide opportunities for upstarts. Here's how wealth and asset management firms are responding.

The investment strategy may generate much greater loss harvesting than direct indexing, but backers point out that they work much differently.

PE funds have outperformed stocks over the past five, 10 and 25 years. But not in three of the past four. Here are some of the key caveats to the appeal of PE.

Aiming to funnel more millionaires into its services, Morgan Stanley is launching a private equity fund for its widest audience yet.