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Experts are banking on continued strong performance and cash flows from real estate investment trusts.

Peter Princi of Morgan Stanley relates his career as an advisor with the time he spent with the New York Mets.

In January Financial Planning featured tips from industry experts on how to improve your practice. Now, advisors sound off with their own tips for colleagues and competitors.

How can you build a better advisory practice? Check out some tips from the experts.

Blue Bell, PA-based wealth management shop Persimmon Capital Management has launched its first mutual fund, Persimmon Long/Short Fund (LSEAX), a multi-advisor mutual fund that employs long/short equity strategies. The fund started trading with $25 million of assets under management.

The US mutual fund industry is set to surpass $15 trillion in assets in February (open- and closed-end funds, and including exchange-traded funds), according to data from Strategic Insight.

BlackRock Inc. hired Gary Shedlin as chief financial officer to replace Ann Marie Petach, who will move to a client-oriented role within the firm.

“The combination of this being who I am and what I do and having absolutely no other interests makes me think this is what I’ll be doing for a while,” Blankfein said.

Legg Mason Inc. (LM) named interim chief executive officer Joseph A. Sullivan as CEO, ending a five-month search for a leader to reverse five years of client redemptions and calm restive fund affiliates, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Target-date funds have an “implicit guarantee” to deliver a particular return by a particular time. Are the funds being marketed responsibly?

Expect drastic changes in the fund industry over the next half decade, says a new research report. 

The White House issued an executive order on Tuesday that aims to strengthen protection of the nation's critical infrastructure against cyberattack.

Robert Sofia says that the social network is important for advisors, but if you cannot (or will not) approach it properly, don’t bother.

As mobile applications proliferate, do financial advisors really use them?

In a survey of 21 different positions in financial advisory firms, a new survey from the Financial Planning Association indicates that most planners got a pay increase from the time that the was survey was conducted three years ago.

Ari’s Next Move

Two thirds of high-net-worth households with $5 million or more in investable assets believe that the country is worse off now than it was in 2007.

Expect drastic changes in the fund industry over the next half decade, says a new research report. 

The old adage of ‘happy wife, happy life,” is ringing louder for Scott Simon, a managing director at Pacific Investment Management Co. who heads mortgage- and asset- backed securities investing.

MIAMI - Smartphone shipments began to outpace personal computer shipments in 2011. Now, more than 50 percent of mobile phone users are smartphone users.