Even doing nothing is a decision.

Credit Suisse's Impact Advisory and Finance (IAF) department will be headed by Marisa Drew.

Joel Tillinghast, who specializes in small-cap stocks, said his job as portfolio manager has also become tougher because of the changing nature of the U.S. economy.

It increasingly appears that the stocks investors are buying when the market dips in general are the stocks that have generally been going up, not the ones headed down.

For the moment, there's renewed optimism for progress on taxes.

Only Facebook, Google and Apple are classified as technology stocks.

“We can have a 5 to 8 percent correction anytime," Cooperman said.

The Fed's switch to quantitative tightening could spell "trouble."

Outperformance is a factor of the profitability of the companies in the "sin" industries. Investors can emulate those returns in more straight-laced businesses.

It’s easy to position your client’s portfolio for the oncoming bear market—if you know when it's coming. Advisors shouldn’t try to invest around a down market, but they should prepare their clients for the inevitable bumps.