Portfolio

The fixed-income trade is booming at BlackRock and other investment firms, which are capturing a greater amount of activity -- and fees -- with their ballooning credit ETF businesses.

Many firms default to secretive end-of-year subjective processes to assess compensation. There’s a better way. Fiduciary Network’s Yvonne Kanner offers 9 strategies to fairly reward and keep employees.

With performance thriving and volatility trending lower, investors have pumped cash into high-yield municipal bond funds for the past 22 weeks to extend the sector’s more than two-year recovery.

Demand for global dividend ETFs has picked up.

Among the measures commission officials say they're working on is a third-party examination framework.

Anthony Kelly, the new co-head of the SEC’s Enforcement Division subunit, looks to reassure CCOs.

Complications when using IRA investments to hold master limited partnerships; plus, minimizing taxes when clients are no longer on the payroll, and a smart RMD investment strategy.

Who’s making what? FA Insight breaks down advisor compensation.

Each type of account has its strengths so clients who can contribute to both will make the most of the benefits; plus, the advantages of downsizing.

A veteran who worked as broker and recruiter for 20 years joined Securities America’s branch office development recruiting team.