Retail-oriented ETFs tend to underperform the market during the holiday shopping season. In the nine years since retail ETFs began to trade, investors would have been better off sticking with a boring old S&P 500-stock index fund.
Will another strong jobs report make the Federal Reserve act too slowly to lift interest rates?
While fees are lower and there's more transparency, there could be big changes coming considering the Federal Reserve's plans to raise interest rates.
December has been a bruising month for bond traders, with a $270 billion drop — and we've only just begun.
Merrill Lynch has dozens of employees working on a robo-adviser prototype for Merrill Edge that's set to be unveiled next year.
The same factors roiling markets and driving volatility in many asset classes are creating opportunities across the sector's spectrum.
There have been no initial public offerings so far in 2016.
Investors resumed redemptions from Bill Gross's Janus Global Unconstrained Bond Fund, taking out about $74 million in November.
Federal Reserve officials have signaled that an interest-rate increase is in play for their December meeting.
Bill Gross' successor Daniel Ivascyn quietly has pulled off a stunning performance.
