Investments

William Galvin, Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, last week called out Charles Schwab & Co. for recently changing up its customer arbitration agreements by striking its investors' ability to join class action lawsuits.

Much ado has been made about the splashy start this year for equity funds.

Is there an actual fee war being waged among exchange-traded fund providers or are fees being adjusted merely according to standard operating procedure?

In first seven weeks of the year, $30 billion flowed in to equity mutual funds.

While U.S. investors remained net purchasers of mutual fund assets for the week ended Feb. 27, political uncertainty seems to have shaken them somewhat.

Are active exchange-traded funds just a gimmick? And is there a resolution in sight for any potential further reform of the money market mutual fund industry?

New York Life, the parent company of Mainstay Investments, has hired Don Desiderato as senior managing director and chief technology officer.

ALPS has launched the U.S. Equity High Volatility Put Write Index Fund (HVPW), which tracks the NYSE Arca U.S. Equity High Volatility Put Write Index.

Investors in Los Angeles–based FPA funds will be glad to hear that effective April 1, all of the FPA Funds will be available as no-load funds.

The largest purveyor of money market mutual funds in the United States this month told the Financial Stability Oversight Council that no further reform of such funds is necessary.

First Trust Advisors has launched another actively managed ETF.

Tax-exempt money market funds saw modest inflows as they reversed the recent outflow pattern.

Inflows to municipal bond mutual funds ticked up this week to $324 million, making it eight consecutive weeks in the red.

The Cape May, N.J.-based community bank has a investment services program that would make most rivals envious. And it has a rapidly expanding assets under management to prove it.

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Annual reports, prospectuses, and statements of additional information from fund families provide information for investors that can be very instructive about their fund's relative tax efficiency.

The former TARP inspector general discusses the financial crisis and suggests advisors need to look beyond government policies for the greater truths.

Karen Wimbish, head of retail retirement at Wells Fargo discusses her 16 years in the securities business.

Many women say their current financial professionals don't measure up. Shouldn't you be offering your services instead?

RegentAtlantic has built up a $2.4 billion firm by rounding up a baker's dozen of niche-focused wealth advisors.