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Looking for a way to play small-cap oil companies to offset some of the pain you're feeling at the pump? IndexIQ's new small-cap oil ETF might be exactly what you need.

Nassim Taleb has made a career out of trying to get financial professionals to pay recognize that unpredictable events do occur, with devestating effect.

WASHINGTON—Asset management firms must have a presence on social media if they want to remain relevant to financial advisers and investors, speakers said at the Investment Company Institute’s “Using Social Media in Fund Communications” panel during the General Membership Meeting here.

The Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed requiring financial firms to report in real-time either short sale transactions or positions as part of an initiative to increase disclosure on the popular practice

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- It's a myth that large wealth management firms are losing advisers to independent firms.

A group of motivated financial planners in Massachusetts are using their skills to help people in need – cancer patients at Boston’s esteemed Dana-Farber Cancer Institute.

Wells Fargo failed to promptly send prospectuses to certain mutual fund customers and update records for representatives employed by the firm, FINRA said.

Kris Jenner is trained as a surgeon and since 2000 has managed T. Rowe Price’s Healthcare Technology fund. Having an M.D. at the helm of a fund—and another on its analyst team—doesn’t hurt. Health Sciences boasts Lipper’s top scores for total return, consistent return and capital preservation, as well as low expenses.

Here’s a sad truth—you can spend your days absorbing knowledge and becoming very intelligent, but if you don’t do anything with that knowledge, you’re no better off than somebody else who sat around eating popcorn and watching reruns of Fantasy Island.

The rich will be getting even richer over the next decade and the pool of investors formerly identified as merely affluent will soon make the leap to millionaire status, creating plenty of growth opportunities for wealth managers and investment firms in the U.S. and abroad.