Portfolio

The future of financial planning will be shaped by a dozen key trends. How will these trends affect you and your business?

The two Monday morning sessions at the Bank Insurance & Securities Association’s annual conference were billed as “Market Perspectives” and they lived up to the name.

Oklahoma City, OK—based Exchange Traded Concepts, an exchange-traded fund platform for emerging managers, has received the green light from the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch actively managed ETFs, Money Management Executive has learned.

Here are the top firms according to their basic payout for producers at the $200,000 mark.

More than one in five worry they may not be doing enough to make a difference, with 82% subscribing to the belief that greater wealth brings a greater obligation to be philanthropic.

U.S. exchange-traded fund assets totaled $1.41 trillion as of Feb. 28–up 5.1% year-to-date, according to State Street Global Advisor’s latest ETF Snapshot.

Touchstone Investments is closing its Touchstone Sands Capital Institutional Growth Fund to new investors. The fund managed some $2.6 billion as of March 8.

Investors injected roughly $10.8 billion into mutual funds and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for the week.

A Massachusetts Democrat has introduced a bill that would permanently extend Build America Bonds with a subsidy rate that drops on a phased-in basis and a provision that ensures sequestration would not result in reduced Treasury subsidy payments to issuers.

Zero-coupon bonds: exceptional value or chronic underperformance? Opinions vary, but there's no mistaking that there's a lot of activity in zeros lately as investors look to them for yield.