Investments

Expense cuts and other factors have advisors recalculating which funds have the best payoff for clients.

Learn what the past six decades can tell advisors about future performance.

How one firm is preparing for a few of the megatrends heading our way.

Here's what to expect from the industry and your clients.

A huge expansion of wealth, new technological leaps, greater life expectancy. Planning could be really difficult.

Stock funds soar as grim forecasts prove overly pessimistic.

In contemplating the future, here's what I predict for the profession and the investment markets.

More advisors are shifting toward a broader approach and away from investment management.

Is purchasing a place for a child to live in a smart financial choice? Here's how to help your clients avoid owning Animal House.

Scout Investments has found new leadership for its institutional distribution team.

First Trust Advisors has launched another actively managed ETF.

Vanguard today closed two funds to new investors while prepping another to launch in the second quarter.

Managed futures mutual funds? They are so 2012.

Global investor confidence rose in February, jumping 8.7 points to 94.8 from 86.1 the month before, according to the State Street Investor Confidence Index.

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.

2013 is looking good so far for mutual funds.

PIMCO has launched the PIMCO Emerging Markets Full Spectrum Bond Fund (PFSIX), which it touts as a "one stop" fixed income strategy to bet on investment opportunities in the developing world.

PIMCO has launched the PIMCO Emerging Markets Full Spectrum Bond Fund (PFSIX), which it touts as a "one stop" fixed income strategy to bet on investment opportunities in the developing world.

For the week ended Feb. 20, investors steered an estimated $11.29 billion into mutual funds, down 11% from the previous week.

Franklin Templeton plans to open three new offices in Italy.