Portfolio

How to Gain Better Access to Advisors

High-quality bond funds are much less risky than some investors believe and are not susceptible to bubbles.

Tax season reveals the many misconceptions taxpayers have about the Tax Code. Here's a selection of examples submitted by readers.

Financial advisors: Here's how to get a baseline reading of your own firm's practices.

Risk assessment questionnaires may produce flawed results because they don’t adequately focus on an client’s need to take risks.

Succession planning was the driving force behind the merger, according to principals for both firms.

Risk assessment questionnaires may produce flawed results because they don’t adequately focus on an client’s need to take risks.

Despite a commitment by Schorsch to keep top executives, Roth, the former Advisor Group CEO, will head the new management team.

The investment business is full of twists and turns, and it is not just portfolio managers and analysts that have to constantly read the changing winds; as a marketing professional you must also adapt as the market changes. The last few years have been tough for mutual fund marketers, with investors leaving this product for ETFs and moving assets from equity products to those that specialize in fixed income.

The regulatory drive to designate mutual funds or their managers as systemically important financial institutions increasingly looks like a campaign to extend the power of central banks and other banking regulators over global capital markets.