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"A Random Walk Down Wall Street," written by Princeton economist Burton Malkiel, was first published in 1973.

Putnam Investments has named industry veteran Stephen Jenks head of products and marketing for its defined contribution business.

Order management systems help fund managers place orders on multiple trading venues.

To simplify or not to simplify?

The owners of the Standard & Poor’s Indices and the Dow Jones Indices said they will create a joint venture in index services.

The Tokyo and Osaka exchanges appear close to competing details of a plan to merge.

Eileen Rominger, director of the SEC's division of investment management, testified last month before the U.S. Senate that the commission is reviewing whether the widespread use of exchange-traded funds is contributing to market volatility.

On the heels of the Financial Planning Standards Board's semi-annual meeting in Washington, D.C., top leaders of the Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards offered an update on the group's agenda, which remains dominated by policy advocacy and an ambitious public awareness campaign.

Anyone interested in investing in or doing business with Chinese companies should understand China’s fundamentally different corporate values, said Joshua Cooper Ramo, a keynote speaker at the Schwab Impact 2011 conference in San Francisco.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell Friday, finishing the week down 247.87 points to 11983.24 and ending a five-week winning streak. Stocks slipped 61.23 points on Friday.