Portfolio management

Contingent deferred annuities represent product manufacturers' latest appeal to independent RIA advisors and their clients. Here's how they're making the case.

Critics including President Trump are ramping up the pressure on large corporations to drop their programs. But others doubted the firms' sincerity all along.

Dimensional Fund Advisors' latest research adds to existing literature highlighting sometimes-overlooked downsides with the ongoing rush to low-cost ETFs and other products.

With promises of potentially beating the market, actively managed ETFs can appear attractive to investors. But with higher fees and more potential volatility, are they worth it?

Nearly 80% of the respondents to a recent advisor survey conducted by the asset management giant Blackstone said they plan to recommend more alternative investments in 2025.

Opportunistic competitors anticipating trades are swooping in first, moving prices, according to a recent study.

Advisors say they are watching these changes closely, making portfolio adjustments where needed and generally reassuring nervous clients that they have planned for this sort of volatility.

Out of more than 2,000 moves reducing prices over nearly 50 years, the company says this round represents the largest in its history.

Advisors using Orion Trading can now connect directly into Pontera to integrate clients' 401(k)s, 403(b)s and other held-away accounts.

Funds that use Section 351 conversions are rolling out in 2025, led by the launch of one with the ticker TAX. Here's what financial advisors and investors should know.

Regulators took the wirehouses to task for not having policies directing advisors to consider clients' best interests.

A Tax Court ruling that limited partners in an investment manager must pay Uncle Sam could cause some restructuring across the industry, an expert said.

The asset management giant called out the method of offsetting capital gains in this year's edition of its oft-cited study tracking the "alpha" of financial planning.

Edward Jones stood accused of not properly supervising advisors who were charging clients commissions for mutual funds and then moving the fund shares over to fee-generating accounts.

Industry experts say the new team of 25 investment specialists seems designed to tackle the more esoteric aspects of working with wealthy clients and leave asset gathering and relationship management to advisors.

Wealthy clients and other accredited investors should consider drilling deductions, opportunity zones and 1031 exchanges in 2025, an expert says.

The tax-efficient, low-cost funds may have an even greater advantage over traditional mutual funds due to the IRS's lack of a definition for "substantially identical" securities.

Experts say the playing field has fundamentally changed as fractional ownership and other paths to access make alternative investments increasingly available.

Trump returns to the White House promising both deregulation and tariffs, the Fed considers whether to keep dropping interest rates or not and markets, which hit new highs in 2024, are watching it all closely in the new year.

ESG and like investments have come under fire, but a US SIF report seems to see some positivity in the sector despite concerns about greenwashing and greenhushing.