For the third year in a row, the registered investment advisor (RIA) industry enjoyed strong asset growth.

Quantitative mutual funds, dubbed “black box” investments for their strict adherence to quantitative metrics and technical analysis, have come into vogue this year

Larry Fink is something of a rock star. For starters, Fink has built his asset-management company, the New York-based BlackRock, into the third-largest bond manager in the U.S., with some $450 billion in assets.

Kevin Rowell is no stranger to advisors. A longtime executive at some of the nation's largest broker-sold fund shops, he was recruited away from Charles Schwab in January to boost slumping sales at Pioneer Investments

Prudential Equity Group, a broker/dealer subsidiary of Prudential Financial, got slammed Monday with one of the biggest settlements seen in a market timing case: $600 million in fines, restitution and penalties.

In 30 years, the mutual fund business has evolved from simple products to a mind-boggling array of options. The latest twist: back to basics

Position your clients to survive a 1970's style capital markets storm

Class B mutual fund shares are under assault. Dreyfus became the second fund company to stop offering B shares in March; Franklin-Templeton was the first in 2005.

Way back in 1998, when stocks were hot, investment-biker and former Soros-partner Jim Rogers launched a commodity index fund, predicting a flat-out bull market in a wide range of commodities. How right Rogers was, again.

No-load funds continued to attract the bulk of new cash in 2005, according to data recently released by the Investment Company Institute