Educating financial advisers about leveraged-index funds is one goal that Dan O'Neill embraced when he took over last month as Direxion Funds' chief executive.
Providers of exchange traded products are developing investments that give investors the ability to more accurately pinpoint risk.
The Securities and Exchange Commission is expected to issue a proposal by summer that would cap 12(b)-1 fees that investors in Class C mutual fund shares are charged, according to the general counsel of the Investment Company Institute.
In a period of market volatility and anxiety, a Santa Monica, Calif., investment firm is preparing to expand.
The hunt for alternatives managers is greater than any other type of manager this year, according to a new survey of consultants' expected searches for 2008.
The acronym RIA refers, of course, to registered investment advisers.
We are as suspicious of public markets as we are of public toilets.
The dollar rose to 1.5341 per euro, the largest gain since March 12, and advanced to 100.04 yen per dollar in trading in Japan.
In the weeks following a ground-breaking Supreme Court case allowing individual 401(k) participants to sue employers, lawyers have been recommending that advisers require plan sponsors to purchase fiduciary insurance.
