Portfolio

Estate planning is a critical part of the planning process and ideally should be a group effort, involving attorneys and accountants as well as planners.

An unexpected windfall is welcome, but stressful. Here's a plan for helping clients cope.

As actively managed funds lose their luster, the mutual fund industry is working to capitalize on new trends.

The firm has embarked on an aggressive strategy to double the assets in its managed account group over the next five years and these two men are leading the way.

Yields on money market funds have eroded since 2007, but the worst days may be over.

Clients should update their wills after births, deaths, marriages and — especially — divorces.

The precious metal plays the role of insurance: There when you need it and quiet when you don't.

A bad day for financial engineers in Chicago continued Wednesday, when the Securities and Exchange Commission said the assets of a quantitative trading firm were frozen.

Over the next five business days through Sept. 6, the Dow Jones Golden Crossover Large-Cap Total Stock Market Index will decrease its equity allocation from 100% to 25%, moving that 75% allocation into the cash equivalent of short-term U.S. Treasury bills.