Fidelity Investments, the second-largest U.S. mutual fund company, will test an automated-investment service starting Wednesday on a small group of existing customers.
Federal Reserve chairwoman cites heightened risks in the global economy as cause for caution
One of the lowest-cost fund companies gets into a war of words with an analyst over how it calculates expense ratios.
Plus: Consumers are borrowing like it's 2008, mortgage-backed securities are back in vogue, and college is for chumps
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Liquid alts beating the hedge funds they're designed to mimic begs the question of why we even need hedge funds anymore?
Smart beta may be the most popular new strategy for mutual fund companies, but the real trend is towards funds with lower expenses.
Finding funds likely to beat their benchmarks remains the challenge, and where financial advisers can earn their keep
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> The Fed says the markets are too obsessed with too much information.
An interactive list of all the funds to be honored, across all years of return and categories
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> A couple of Vanguard and Fidelity mutual funds raise questions about when it is time to close a fund to new investors.
Even with its gains and long life, most investors have been lukewarm toward the stock market.
The minimum investment is $5 billion for the stock fund, and $3 billion for the bond fund.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> If the data is correct, women's investment returns have been trouncing men's for nearly a decade.
Ill-named strategy finds place between passive and active.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> An estimated 70 million Americans will wager $9.2 billion this year through March Madness office pools, but keep in mind that any winnings are taxable.
Plus: El-Erian's gloomy forecast, what it will take to save Social Security, and it's time to start taking cannabis investing seriously
Goldman's new online bank, acquired from General Electric last week, caps a decade-long shift by the firm and Morgan Stanley to lean more on deposits for funding.
Shares in developing nations were on the brink of a bull market as oil rose and favorable shifts in central-bank policies supported riskier assets.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> So far, nobody has been prosecuted for contributing to the 2008 financial crisis. “This gags me,” said Elizabeth Warren.
Competition from index funds could hold the death rate steady going forward.
