Portfolio

The annual gift tax exclusion, which has been $13,000 since 2009, will be $14,000 in 2013, the IRS has announced.

In On Wall Street's sixth annual ranking, the young hotshots of The Street talk clients and strategy. Here's how this year's top 40 advisors under 40 conquered a tough market. And check out the other top young advisors in the industry.

There's growing concern in the mutual fund space about new regulatory requirements designed to increase transparency about business practices and generally expected to raise the stakes for fund firms and managers.

Nationwide Funds Group has merged the UBS High Yield Fund and UBS Global Equity Fund into the Nationwide High Yield Bond Fund and the Nationwide Global Equity Fund, giving Nationwide some $183 million in new assets

A year ago, Morningstar introduced its forward-looking analyst ratings system for the mutual funds it covers in the United States.

The Nationwide Funds Group is taking two tacks to drive growth of assets.

Ouch! Long-term mutual funds saw $2.99 billion in outflows for the week ended Wednesday, Nov. 14. That's a steep drop from $6.19 billion in inflows the week prior.

First Trust Advisors has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission to launch an active exchange-traded fund that will bet on the commodity futures market.

For the week ended November 14, investors pulled an estimated $6.6 billion from mutual funds that invest long-term in U.S. equities, bringing total outflows for the year to more than $123 billion.