General Electric is having a bad year, the questions savvy prospects are asking of advisors, and the CFP Board has a new chair-elect.

In July, buybacks fell to $17.3 billion. Daily buyback frequency and volume have dropped to 2009 levels.

While fee cuts are heralded as boons for investors, there's no guarantee that those savings will wind up in their pockets.

Amid concern that passive investing has weakened corporate governance, the indexes are setting some new rules.

It's been 56 weeks since the last 5 percent decline in the stock market.

Conventional wisdom says that as passive investment strategies grow, they would affect stock prices. The data shows otherwise.

Data is cheap and ubiquitous. Active investors need to read the human emotions driving the market, says Franklin Mutual's Peter Langerman.

By many standards, investors are as fat and happy as they have ever been

The dust is still settling from monetary policy makers across the globe.

Central-bank tightening isn’t deterring investors from China, Korea, Mexico and others.