Yes, it's easy to get sick of all this hype about the environmental movement. An Inconvenient Truth (whether you agree with its conclusions or not) won an Oscar; hottie celebs are driving hybrid automobiles; the press gushes about eco-related...
Individual investors are paying less to own mutual fund shares, as fees and expenses have hit their lowest level in more than 25 years, according to research published Tuesday by the Investment Company Institute. In 2006, fund shareholders, on...
Robeco Investment Management, a unit of the largest independently owned money manager in Europe, snatched up four American asset managers and is now targeting U.S. retail financial advisors for the first time. Will advisors bite?
Best-selling author Peter L. Bernstein explains how heretical, academic research has become investing orthodoxy. And yet, Modern Portfolio Theory is under attack from behavioral finance theorists. Who is right?
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Speaking at the Investment Company Institute’s general membership meeting here today, Chairman Martin Flanagan told attendees that legislators’ concerns over mutual fund fees, particularly in 401(k) plans, may...
There are a lot of millionaires in the United States. More than ever, in fact, according to recent research published by London-based market research firm TNS. But are they turning to financial advisors for help? Well, yes, and no.
For some academics, American Century Heritage Fund might seem like a fluke. The mid-cap growth fund has an annual portfolio turnover of 230 percent, about double the rate of its peers.