Regulator: "There is concern that retail customers may not fully understand the risks and the potential impact on their portfolios."
Plus: Honoring SPY, you will be voting for bigger deficits, and broke millennials as a voting bloc
Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund loses 3.9%, erasing gains from previous six quarters.
Agency reaches settlements with issuers, doesn't access fines.
The Investment Company Institute blasts the state over its plans to exclude mutual funds from the proposed Secure Choice program.
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Taking on too much risk to stay on top.
Fund companies, investors move to avoid new fees and restrictions
The debate favors active because calculations are often skewed.
Shrinking the pool of muni sellers does not help investors
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> In the wake of the March launch of the SPDR SSGA Gender Diversity Index ETF (SHE), out rolls the Bloomberg Financial Services Gender Equity Index.
Make sure your clients fully understand the tax implications and overall risk profile of what they're buying.
Mutual funds argue an SEC proposal would save millions of trees, while paper companies say going digital would harm elderly investors.
One-year anniversary shows lots of effort to calm nerves, rebuild investor trust.
Trend toward low-cost passive mutual funds will reduce margins.
Preferred Apartment Communities Inc. is selling nontraded preferred shares to help fund its growth, giving brokers a 7% commission.
The agency is scrutinizing ETFs because of instances of sharp volatility, and has launched an initiative to evaluate how mutual funds can better inform investors about costs.
The rise of passive asset management threatens to fundamentally undermine the entire system of capitalism, say analysts at research and brokerage firm Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
New regulation was catalyst for broker-dealer to impose uniformity, says LPL Financial's Mark Casady.
