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Traders are splurging on “complex” ETFs to ride out the crushing bear market across assets.

Rising inflation and heightened market volatility have many clients rethinking risk tolerance.

The RIA’s customers didn’t receive adequate explanation of its conflicts of interest from no-transaction-fee mutual funds, the regulator says.

A welter of benchmarks and indexes makes it hard for retail investors and financial advisors to know exactly what they're buying

The change from “impact” to “ESG” to “sustainable,” brought in millions at a time in which investors are skeptical about a fund's do-good claims.

Funding from the American Rescue Plan has saved multiemployer pensions, for now. But experts say much work remains to be done.

The guidelines can help planners with charitably minded clients steer clear of compliance thickets and run-ins with the IRS.

For fans of the blockchain-encrypted artwork, there are signs to look for – and to avoid – when buying this asset.

‘Equi-vest’ account statements sent to a million public school teachers and other 403(b) and 457(b) clients were missing nearly all of the expenses, the regulator says.

Even if rules governing the new assets turn out to be at odds with those of firms, acting today will foster a compliance culture in a volatile financial services space.

New research shows that higher-priced strategies can come with lower returns and greater risk — an urgent reason for advisors and investors to monitor the space.

The strategy is widely promoted, but it can leave some investors worse off.

Macro factors like inflation, Federal Reserve actions, midterm elections, Ukraine, energy, the euro and China seem likely to drive markets for at least the rest of the year.

BlackRock's Head of Municipals Peter Hayes lays out the muni landscape for the rest of the year, highlighting opportunities for the asset class after the severe volatility so far in 2022.

America’s first leveraged single-stock ETFs will debut Thursday, despite warnings from the SEC.

Capital gains distributions running to the hundreds of thousands of dollars hit certain clients with painful payments due to the firm's flub, a regulator says.

Storing oil, gold and grain costs a lot of money, which is why they're great for trading but terrible as a long-term investment.

The patriotic-themed fund would trade under the ticker YALL.