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Rather than chasing company payouts, get better tax advantages with a strategy based on stock buybacks.

In helping clients increase their retirement savings, which is more important: higher contributions or higher returns?

Clients deserve straight answers on the ways they pay for your services.

Issuers kept busy in the first part of the year, but mainly by changing existing products.

Advisors are trying a dizzying variety of compensation plans. Some have been a lot more successful than others.

For fiduciary advisors, a decision by federal judges finding mismanagement of a company's 401(k) plan could have far-reaching consequences.

Shape your firm's messaging by focusing on the different ways to trigger a response in others.

Changes require advisors to adjust strategies for using net unrealized appreciation for lump-sum distributions.

For families with a special-needs child, advisors must employ a variety of tactics.

In an increasingly digital age where people have become accustomed to getting information, making contact and plugging in whenever and wherever they want, some advisors have trouble turning work off.

Mutual funds and exchange-traded funds are both pooled investment solutions that can successfully offer an advisor's strategies to a larger group of investors. The two types of funds share many similarities, but are also different in numerous ways. Advisors need to understand the nuances of both to choose the right investment vehicle to meet their goals.

Broadridge Financial Solutions has agreed to acquire Bonaire Software Solutions, a provider of fee calculation, billing, and revenue and expense management solutions for asset managers including institutional asset managers, wealth managers, mutual funds, bank trusts, hedge funds and capital markets firms.

By now, the Securities and Exchange Commission's newly-minted Chair Mary Jo White must be inundated with advice on how to succeed at her job from sources near and far.

The $2.1 trillion global exchange-traded fund industry has been growing at a rapid clip since the SPDR S&P 500 ETF was launched two decades ago as a means for institutional investors to access passive exposure to the S&P 500 Index.

Acquisitions are on the mind of Jeff Montgomery, who took over the helm of AFAM Capital at the height of the financial crisis in 2008.

Non-traditional investment allocations in defined contribution plans, while commonplace in defined benefit pension portfolios, are a rare sight in today's retirement plan lineup.

Mutual fund companies are facing ongoing challenges in overseeing their financial intermediary relationships as omnibus processing and the reliance on FIs continue to increase, according to a new survey by Boston Financial Data Services.

Investors overreacted to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke’s comments that the central bank could reduce monthly bond purchases, Goldman Sachs Group Chief Executive Officer Lloyd C. Blankfein said.

Municipal bond mutual funds that report flows weekly recorded $4.53 billion in outflows for the week of June 26, Lipper FMI numbers showed, after $2.22 billion of outflows reported the previous week.

Bond managers from DoubleLine Capital LP’s Jeffrey Gundlach to Pacific Investment Management Co.’s Bill Gross are telling investors the worst may be over for Treasury bonds after 10-year yields rose to a 22-month high.