“You can use smart beta smartly or you can use smart beta stupidly.”

(Bloomberg) -- Treasury yields fell, adding to a decline this week that had narrowed their gap to German and Japanese bonds, as Barclays Plc said the Federal Reserve seems to have accepted it can’t raise short-term interest rates when...

(Bloomberg) -- Index and exchange-traded funds are getting better at the thing that makes them so popular: driving down the cost of investing...

The numbers don't add up. The numbers from the recent academic study on the high percentages of “bad brokers” still serving clients at financial advisory firms got a lot of attention in the press (“The Wolves of Wall Street Are Everywhere,” wr...

The SEC started its investigation after companies complained that Lemelson had made potentially inaccurate comments about their firms in public forums

The funds tend to thrive in difficult markets - and lag behind during robust times - by focusing on high-quality stocks and bonds

Last week, S&P Dow Jones Indices released its annual U.S. S&P Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) Scorecard, showing that 66 percent of large-cap equity managers underperformed their benchmark in 2015. This week, American Funds, the darling of th...

Bloomberg) -- To make money betting on the Federal Reserve this week, investors would have done well following traders of the dollar, not Treasuries...