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As sales of ETFs boom, the SEC's Office of Investor Education and Advocacy has released an investor bulletin on the investment vehicle.

U.S. debt yields put you asleep. But you better be on your toes, with the adventure involved in emerging market bonds.

As sales of ETFs boom, the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy has released an investor bulletin on the investment vehicle.

First Trust Advisors has rolled out two new ETFs based on NASDAQ indices. The First Trust NASDAQ Technology Dividend Index Fund and the Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index Fund, which is based on the NASDAQ Multi-Asset Diversified Income Index, began trading Tuesday on NASDAQ.

Here's something for the estimated 72 million 401(k) participants to look forward to at the end of this month: On Aug. 30, the Department of Labor's Employee Benefits Security Administration participant fee disclosure rule, dubbed ERISA 404(a)(5), will go into effect.

Independent financial advisors are strong supporters of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney in his presidential bid, a new survey has found.

WallachBeth Capital, an institutional brokerage firm, has created the WallachBeth Healthcare Research Group.

Equity fund investors appear to be exiting from mutual funds and investing in ETFs instead. Fixed income funds are a different story.

Birmingham, Ala.-based advisor group Bridgeworth Financial, with nearly $1 billion in AUM, has left Lincoln Financial to join the country's largest independent B-D, LPL Financial, in a move that demonstrates the benefits of scale.

Susan Pickering will lead a team of relationship managers for high-net-worth clients and retirement plan services for institutions.