Investment insights

Gorman, who owns about $31 million of his firm’s stock, has a Morgan Stanley private wealth advisor and his personal investments include municipal bonds and a biotech fund, while he favors global equities for his children’s accounts.

These investment strategists say they believe the emerging economies in the world are where equity opportunities are to be found.

With heavyweights like PIMCO throwing its hat into the managed futures mutual fund ring, interest in this investment vehicle appears to be rising.

There have been 16 straight weeks of outflows from muni bond funds, to the tune of $26.4 billion, and industry watchers do not expect flows to bounce back anytime soon.

Developed economies are turning into global growth engines as some emerging-market counterparts decelerate.

Whereas men tend to view money as ethically neutral, women generally have stronger feelings about the social and environmental impacts of money.

A controversial bill to require brokers to disclose recruitment incentives to clients will go before FINRA’s board next week.

Laif Meidell discusses market volatility and how advisors and investors can benefit from taking on a more defensive portfolio position.

Your fee should be about more than just investment performance.

Foreign investors should be diversified in order to survive this period of market volatility.

A week after adding four advisors with $533 million in assets, the firm said it added another round of brokers with a combined $508 million.

The worst rout in the $3.7 trillion municipal-bond market in more than two years is proving a gift for wealthy investors buying through brokers and professional asset managers who see a chance to make long-term money.

Bank of America Corp. will pay $39 million to settle a discrimination lawsuit brought on behalf of women employees at its Merrill Lynch unit, according to court filings.

Morgan Stanley Chief Executive Officer James Gorman said there’s almost no chance of another financial crisis like the one that endangered his firm five years ago.

In the second quarter, fixed annuities experienced highest quarterly sales since 2011, according to data from Morningstar and Beacon Research.

The bank’s new chief investment strategist is assessing the product platform and is looking to expand Webster’s investment offerings.

Ten years since the launch of the first equal-weight index, some persistent misconceptions about such indices remain. Here's a look at the role equal-weight strategies can play in a diversified portfolio.

First Financial Northwest in Washington ousted a longtime CEO, while HopFed Bancorp in Kentucky seated an outsider on its board and canceled an acquisition, under pressure from activist shareholders. More banks can expect similar fights.

These 20-somethings are just beginning their saving and investing journey and there's no time like the present to get them on the right track.

Impulsive investors have migrated from one asset class to another, resulting in a series of asset bubbles. If you zig when they zag, you can find buying opportunities.