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During a year in which Japan stocks were the top performers in the benchmark MSCI AllCountry World Index ex-U.S., the fund was light on that country as its managers took a wait-and-see approach to the Bank of Japan's aggressive (and, in the end, highly successful) asset-buying program.

The priority for mutual fund and ETF managers in 2014 will be operations and technology.

Legal & General Group Plc, the largest manager of U.K. pension assets, agreed to sell an office building in London’s Midtown district to Orchard Street Investment Management LLP for 85.1 million pounds ($140 million).

Concern about rate policy shifts is the factor most likely to drive changes to client retirement income portfolios in 2014, according to a new survey from GDC Research and Practical Perspectives.

Here's a sampling of bank reps who were recently promoted or moved to new organizations to assume roles of greater responsibility.

Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith turns 100 today. At least, she would have, if she was a standalone entity, and not a government-rescued Too Big to Fail entity, forced into a shotgun wedding with Bank of America.

The Family Office Exchange's newly published Guide to the Professional Family Office offers time-tested recommendations to help wealthy families maintain their fortunes.

Congress dangled an incentive for high-income Americans to convert their tax-deferred individual retirement accounts into post-tax plans. Their response was overwhelming.

Meet the most productive young advisors in America.

Vanguard researchers added up the benefit to clients of having smart financial advice. Here's how the numbers work out.

George Canellos, who played a key role in the SEC's efforts to punish misconduct related to the 2008 financial crisis, is leaving the agency after more than four years.

Boeing Co.’s long-term production plans for its new 777X aircraft and three other jets are at stake in a showdown with its largest union that pits worker pensions against the planemaker’s appetite for risk.

The Illinois State Employees Association Retirees sued state officials and retirement systems to block a plan that reduces pension benefits to fix a $100 billion shortfall.

Companies that stuck by their defined-benefit pension plans through the difficult years appear unlikely to seek to disband the benefit. One exception, however, is Boeing, which wants to convert its pension plan to a 401(k)-style retirement program.

Brokers selling higher-fee investments like non-traded real-estate investment trusts and derivative-backed structured notes may get more scrutiny this year after those markets grew in 2013.

Regulators are hoping to release an interim final rule next week designed to satisfy banker demands to change a provision of the Volcker Rule that threatens to force smaller institutions to take millions of dollars in write-offs.

The number of consecutive weeks of outflows, as well as their overall amount, surpasses those of the last great exodus from muni bond funds that occurred back between late-2010 and early 2011.

The pair, who managed more than $146 million in client assets, joined Raymond James with a practice named Stonegate Financial.

FINRA has identified the suitability of the bonds of distressed municipalities for investors, as well as municipal advisor activity, as areas it will focus on in 2014.

Younger millennials carry half the debt of their older peers.