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From hiring sprees to accelerating software launches, companies are gearing up for the significant expenses and changes wrought by the new regulation.

Even in the meltdown, investors continued to show aversion to the defensive industries that led the market in the first half, with utilities, phone companies and REITs bearing the worst of the losses.

Many fear that they will feel alienated and irrelevant after they retire, become a burden to their families, or their surviving spouse will go on retirement alone.

Regulators should step up their inspections of digital advisers as these tools surge in popularity, the firm said.

Low-beta ETFs plunged even more than the broader market, extending a move that began two days earlier.

Central bankers began mulling a hike sooner, than later, causing the S&P 500 to fall 2.4%, its biggest weekly drop since February.

Will the rally continue, or are the winning ways of this asset class nearing an end?

With user growth soaring developing countries, mutual funds focused on emerging economies are increasing investments in the Menlo Park, California-based company.

Banks and investment funds are hiring quants — people with training in physics or higher mathematics — as market intervention by central banks make it difficult to post robust profits.

An ex-American Realty Capital executive allegedly overstated a key accounting metric by roughly $13 million, according to the SEC and federal prosecutors.

The funds will track indexes that draw on the expertise of the firm's quantitative research team.

Gold has rallied 27% this year as the Federal Reserve held off on raising U.S. interest rates.

The funds will track indexes that draw on the expertise of the firm's quantitative-research team.

Good dividend stocks can pay back their cost if held long enough.

Recent economic data has been weaker than expected, but that does not mean it's weak, says the chief economic adviser at Allianz.

Every firm's focus is on capturing a share of the predicted $7 trillion market by 2020.

Fund providers should consider digital platforms and outsourcing to reach more advisers, according to Nuveen's head of alternative strategies.

The positioning leaves the biggest speculators at odds with an increasingly skeptical analyst contingent on Wall Street.

Bossen joined as director of ETF business development at the institutional intermediary division and will focus on the IndexIQ unit that MainStay acquired last year.

The odds that your clients will one day stay in an assisted living home increases 1.4% per year, starting at age 65.