Mutual funds

Brokerage firms that sell the funds must determine whether clients understand their risks — a requirement that could discourage offering them at all.

“There’s less performance chasing than you saw in the past, and that’s a positive thing,” an expert says.

The planned launch from Cornerstone Capital would be the firm’s first stock fund for individual investors with social and environmental goals.

Fund industry Darwinism should be seen as healthy and natural in a thriving — albeit brutal — market, an expert says.

Funds' past performance is no guarantee of future performance — but if planners don't evaluate the past, how can they best communicate investment decisions to clients? Here's how to balance on that tightrope.

After a recent policy switch, many clients at the wirehouse can no longer use balances from their deposit accounts to purchase shares in these funds.

Double-digit gains produced by the mutual funds and ETFs with the most AUM were not enough to best the broader market.

The fact that it’s impossible to track the amount of revenue sharing kickbacks demonstrates the problem, says the research firm’s lead policy wonk.

Clients overpaid more than $12 million because of operating flaws and coding failures in an automated device advisors relied on for executing mutual fund orders.