Investments

The imaginary retirement-income crisis; what happens when your retirement is ambushed; retirement couples' dilemma: the $100,000 difference

Determining the “right” allocation to international equities for clients' portfolios isn’t easy and depends on who you ask.

Advisors have trusted the "Bond King" for years, but with Bill Gross's abrupt departure from PIMCO, the firm he founded 43 years ago, the playing field has changed. Here's what you need to know before the dust settles.

Bill Gross and the risks of 'star power' fund managers; retirement plans for small businesses; the Roth-IRA math for 50-somethings

New York is the capital of the art world, but brave investors may want to look farther afield for opportunities. Be very careful, advisors say.

Advisors should think carefully about finding the right macroeconomic numbers and statistics to share with clients.

When news accounts make clients jittery, advisors must help them strike a balance between bad news and the long view.

Alternative investments have been growing rapidly in popularity in recent years as new funds have been mushrooming and money has been flowing in. Andy Saperstein, Morgan Stanley’s head of investment products and services, explains the wirehouse’s history of working with alts and Morgan’s current approach to leveraging them in client portfolios.

Municipal managers say they're continuing to shield their clients' municipal assets from higher rates even though the timing of a rate hike remains uncertain and some are beginning to doubt rates will spike in the near term.

These funds may give clients access to well-priced properties in Asian and European real estate markets, plus a break from the U.S. interest rate cycle.

A study of how various asset classes fared during 15 years of low inflation offers some surprises.

Gold investors saw their precious metal struggle last year after hitting an all-time high in 2011—today many advisors remain bearish.

What you need to know before retiring internationally; the no. 1 flaw in America's biggest 401(k) plans; retirees, watch out for the state tax bite

Pimco Says It’s Cooperating in SEC’s Total Return ETF Probe

Nearly a third of investors say they “consciously avoid stocks in long-term investment accounts," according to a new Wells Fargo/Gallup study.

Which is more important to clients' frontier economy asset portfolios? Debt? Equity? The answer is both.

Clients searching for income? Here's a look at the 10 biggest dividend payers this year.

Clients searching for income? Here's a look at the 10 biggest dividend payers this year.

As the issuance of green municipal bonds climbs this week, the bonds performance in the secondary market shows mixed results.

In a speech Tuesday, U.S. Bank CEO Richard Davis offered mostly upbeat views about the evolving, more stringent expectations of bank regulators.