Portfolio

Fidelity Investments is lowering investment minimums on 22 equity, fixed income and enhanced index funds, and slashing total net expenses on eight of its Spartan Index funds.

Following the Malvern, Pa., company's announcement of 300 new hires in its Arizona office, the mutual fund giant has announced 354 new positions for its Pennsylvania and North Carolina offices as well.

The Vanguard Group is doing its part in bringing down the national unemployment rate.

Fidelity Investments is taking inspiration from sale season.

Billionaire investors Warren Buffett and George Soros are calling on Congress to increase the estate tax as lawmakers near a decision on tax policies that expire Dec. 31.

Huntington Asset Services is looking to boost its sales team.

Mutual funds must identify themselves as legal entities involved in swaps and other financial transactions. But how to pay to register?

The end of the year is a time that is dominated by goal setting and making projections. While this is an important process for advisors and clients alike as they head into the New Year, many plan and set goals the wrong way.

Active exchange-traded fund purveyor AdvisorShares is launching the AdvisorShares Pring Turner Dow Jones Business Cycle (DBIZ) ETF on Dec. 19.

Gen Y clients may have high standards and a different way of doing business, but they may also very well become the clients who will sustain an advisor’s company. For one, these younger consumers have more capital invested in the stock market through retirement savings plans than any prior generation did at the same age, according to Vanguard Investment Counseling & Research Group.