Tweaks to the star rating system have made it better predictor of performance

Retail investors accustomed to buying personal finance books online can now purchase mutual funds from Amazon.com.

Best selling author Loral Langemeier tells her legions of followers to quit passively investing their savings in stocks and bonds. Invest directly, she says, in real estate and in other businesses. Why be so passive?

Mario Gabelli, one of Wall Street's best-known money managers, has been in the spotlight lately, but not for his investment returns. The Justice Department charged him with civil fraud in auctions for wireless telephone licenses. Meantime, two...

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Money-market funds may not be sexy but they have been attracting advisors attention lately. But is the retail investor better off in a money market or an insured account?

Genetically modified crops scare uninformed consumers. But not investors. Here's why

More than two and a half years after the market-timing scandal, investors have yet to recieve a dime in restitution

Many bond funds prefer not to bet on the direction of interest rates. Here are a few that do - and win.

Merill's $8 billion swap with BlackRock fixes its house funds conflicts. Or does it?