Portfolio

Investor confidence in North America continued to weaken in September, according to State Street's Investor Confidence Index. The index fell by 3.2 points in September to 81.1 from a month earlier.

Jeffrey Gundlach, the chief executive officer of DoubleLine Capital whose home was burglarized earlier this month, has offered some $1.7 million for information leading to the recovery of stolen artwork.

The 361 Absolute Alpha Fund has lowered its management fee from 165 basis points to 125 bps, effective Oct. 1

Even with a forecast for modestly stronger growth for the rest of the year, Barclays still sees a looming fiscal cliff negatively hitting U.S. gross domestic product into 2013.

If Congress does not act and the current estate tax law expires, 14.7 million U.S. households could have a tax liability according to a report released by LIMRA, a worldwide association of insurance and financial services companies, on Tuesday.

Lynette DeWitt, former Research Director - Financial Product Development, Marketing, & Distribution, at Boston Financial Data Services, has left the firm.

After working under one of the most successful advisors in the financial planning industry, Matthew Halloran took time, studied, read, and reviewed all of the top financial advisors he worked with over the years and found ten things are the keys to being a top advisor.

For a startup firm, attracting $150 million in assets under management within nine months is impressive. The entire story, though, of PWM Advisory Group goes back more than a decade.

After rallying 16% this year, the S&P 500 Index closed last year at its highest point since 2007, as investors celebrated news that central bankers were riding to the world's rescue with yet more stimulus. But is it too far too fast?

Traditional mutual funds may have recovered the ground they lost in the market turmoil of 2008, but even so, investors are not convinced that active management gives the best bang for their buck.