Portfolio management

The "father of the index fund" was famously skeptical that exchange-traded funds would encourage risky and speculative stock market bets.

The deal comes an ongoing boom in private loans to businesses and consumers.

The active side of passive indices is on display as two of the largest present plans to undercut the weighting of the largest megacap companies.

Small-cap funds may be an attractive element of a diversified portfolio, but you wouldn't necessarily know that looking at the data from this year.

The outcome of the November election is likely to have a significant effect on interest rates, tax cuts and deregulation — in turn affecting client portfolios.

A FINRA study found nearly 400 firms, or 65% of the broker-dealers surveyed, have some hand in crypto assets and trading, as the once-novel asset class becomes normalized. But that still doesn't make it normal for regulators.

A belief in the exceptional nature of U.S. markets can blind advisors to clients' true risk tolerance.

Advisor consultants say it's time to do a tech gut check as new technology is bloating firms into paying for costly and often unnecessary tech stacks.

Advyzon has grown for more than a decade using the strategy that all technology should be built in-house, even if it takes longer.

Recent years have taken the shine off of fixed income, both as a portfolio diversifier and a way to boost total returns. The prospect of falling rates next month promises to reverse that.

The litigation comes amid heated debate over a Department of Labor rule meant to prevent excessive fees on sales of insurance products.

Activist shareholders targeted 449 companies with mostly large market capitalizations.

Mutual funds are losing assets, while ETFs are gaining them. Here's a look at how a pioneering firm has adjusted to a difficult environment in recent years.

While big firms keep getting hit with lawsuits alleging unfair cash sweep policies, MaxMyInterest is generating returns from cash through the competitive marketplace.

These recoveries don't guarantee a bottom has been reached.

Financial planners have had to field plenty of questions about why they weren't more aggressively chasing returns. With the market correction, they now have a chance to show the benefits of a diversified strategy.

Like cable companies, Fidelity Investments has joined the bundled pricing trend, targeting smaller firms with lower-cost options to access their multiservice platforms.

The planning strategies for large individual equity holdings pose tax, investment and behavioral questions for financial advisors and their customers.

Dubbed as the "digital admin for private investments," Arch has grown rapidly this year, adding AI tools that easily summarize documents for advisors, but hasn't lost the human touch.

Despite the notion that an ESG backlash is pushing clients away, private equity products aiming to solve challenging problems through investments are still on the rise.