Portfolio

Exchange-traded funds are all the craze and new ones are coming out of the woodwork daily. But do investors really know what they’re buying in a hedge replication strategy or an Eastern European index fund?

Here's an interactive slide show about how to deal with the numerous it-takes-money-to-make-money types of paradoxes you run into when trying to start up your own RIA firm.

John Hancock has launched an ad campaign reaching out to financial advisors, focusing on the position of trust many enjoy with their clients.

Total money market mutual fund assets decreased by $15.49 billion to $2.622 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, March 21, according to the Investment Company Institute.

Well, Fidelity’s chief executive won’t personally meet the oracle of Omaha but a contingent of his senior executives will, Fortune reports .

Total money market mutual fund assets decreased by $15.49 billion to $2.622 trillion for the week ended Wednesday, March 21, according to the Investment Company Institute.

The founder of Veritable, the country’s third-largest RIA, says his firm’s new partnership with wealth management giant Affiliated Managers Group is part of a broader effort to build a business that can last for generations.

Mutual funds may have been an American innovation. But asset managers will now go to China, Brazil, India or wherever returns can be found, according to Alan Reid, founder Forward Fund Management, at the Investment Company Institute's Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference.

Insurer and wealth manager The Hartford is trimming its focus to a few core business areas: property and casualty, group benefits and mutual funds.

The "race for quality has no finish line. So technically it's more like a death march," according to the inspirational poster that Tamara K. Salmon, senior associate counsel at the Investment Company Institute, was reading at the outset of a session Tuesday at its Mutual Funds and Investment Management Conference on the biggest operational risks fund firms face.