Best place to hide if rates go negative is government bonds.
The mutual fund industry offers about 8,000 mutual funds, spread among about 24,000 share classes, but some fund companies offer many, many more share classes. Experts say it may be a marketing tool for fund firms.
Low fund fees and big fund complexes equal outperformance.
Legg Mason investor survey shows tremendous pressure on stock performance, a need for safer income-generating investments.
Robo-advisers might have more reasons to be worried about the next bear market than investors do.
Even though stock funds scored big gains in March, they're still trailing bonds for 2016.
Here are four things Fed officials are likely to do and not do this week, according to Mohamed El-Erian, the chief economic adviser at Allianz.
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.
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
Finra orders the firm to pay about $2.9 million to two investors in Puerto Rico closed-end municipal bond funds. Total claims top $1.1 billion.
The comment period for the rule, which was introduced in December, closed on Monday.
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.
The minimum investment is $5 billion for the stock fund, and $3 billion for the bond fund.
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.
