News Feed

Exchange-traded funds are like stocks.Except they're not. Here's a glossary on how ETFs really operate.

Investors are getting fixated on fixed income in the next wave of global investing. Here's a Q&A with Gregory E. Johnson, the new chairman of the Investment Company Institute.

Wells Fargo Advisors hired three new financial advisor teams this month who previously oversaw a total of $728 million in client assets.

SEC OKs NYSE Merger; e ETFs Grow 20.6 Percent; Investors Venture Back Into Stock Mutual Funds

You've heard of structured products. These largely were complex securities based on lots of streams of cash in underlying loans whose flows were not well predicted. There was a credit crisis associated with them in 2008.

Mann Dagan Now Trustees Of F Squared Investments; Direxion Names Abreu Senior Sales Director

HighTower Advisors has hired an advisor team from Morgan Stanley Smith Barney’s Graystone Consulting business who oversaw $2.5 billion in client assets to open its first Scottsdale, Ariz., office.

"I cannot think of a time when ICI faced more top-tier issues that could directly affect mutual fund investing,'' Gregory E. Johnson, incoming chairman of the Investment Company Institute, says.

Janney Montgomery Scott adds a pair of financial advisors from Wells Fargo Advisors and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney.

The regulators charged with implementing the Volcker Rule have posed 1,300 questions to the public, but on Wednesday, at a House subcommittee hearing, they fielded one query they seemingly hadn't considered.