Portfolio

Equity mutual fund investors added $1.5 billion while equity exchange-traded fund investors added $3.2 billion into their respective funds of choice for the week ended June 19, according to data from Lipper.

Financial advisors are concentrating too much of their resources on baby boomers and not enough on the next generation of clients, suggests a new report from Cerulli Associates.

Two U.S. Senate aides nominated to join the Securities and Exchange Commission will get a confirmation hearing before the Senate Banking Committee on June 27, according to a Senate announcement today.

It’s common knowledge that Americans aren’t saving enough for retirement. But just how large a deficit is startling.

The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest public pension fund in the U.S. with approximately $260 billion in assets, has made a few changes to its investment fund lineup for the system’s Supplemental Income Plans (SIP).

Assets in defined contribution plans flowed to target-date and international equity funds in 2012, according to a new tracking tool launched by the Defined Contribution Solutions group at Northern Trust.

To evolve and succeed, advisors have to make the transition from practitioners to business owners. As a result we've seen larger firms arising as advisors attempt to add scalability.

Tax-exempt money market funds' inflows slowed to $819.6 million in the week ended June 17 after a $3.13 billion surge the week before, according to The Money Fund Report, a service of iMoneyNet.com.

The first decade of the 21st Century dramatically changed the landscape for financial advisors.

Assets in defined contribution plans flowed to target-date and international equity funds in 2012, according to a new tracking tool launched by the Defined Contribution Solutions group at Northern Trust.