Portfolio

There are many ways to tilt portfolios toward small cap and value. Here are three alternatives for portfolio construction.

Tax treatment, good or bad, can make or break an investment decision. Are you helping your clients avoid these common blunders?

How can you tell whether your own goals are appropriately aggressive? Two things helped new solo advisor Dave Grant understand this.

The fiscal showdown in Washington entered its final stages as the House and Senate prepared competing plans that would end the 15-day-old government shutdown and prevent the U.S. from missing promised payments.

SEC Chairman Mary Jo White said the agency will review corporate disclosure rules to root out requirements that may be causing “information overload” for investors.

The work that earned Eugene Fama the Nobel Prize in economics provided the intellectual foundation for index-tracking funds, which have upended stock picking as investors abandon active money managers.

Advisors at NAPFA describe how they’re working remotely with a majority of their clients. “More and more clients will expect this kind of service,” they say.

With markets moving swiftly, advisors sometimes rebalance more than once a year.

Here’s how to build a diversified portfolio with just a few low-cost funds. It’s the ultimate conclusion from Modern Portfolio Theory.

The company's first product is an iPhone app that aims to take the hassle out of budgeting for young people.