Sen. Peter Fitzgerald, a first-term Republican from Illinois, chairs the only Senate committee investigating mutual fund trading abuses the Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Financial Management, the Budget and International Security. As such...

The term proven commodity is deadon accurate when it comes to investments: Time after time, commodities have proved resilient in downturns. For instance, natural resources funds stayed in the black while the S&P 500 lost more than 10 percent...

The 1906 Monet painting entitled Nympheas was purchased in 1960 at a Sotheby's auction in London for $50,000. That same 35-inch by 35-inch oil on canvas resold at Christie's New York in 1999 for $22.6 million. That's works out to an average annual...

When New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer announced his investigations into improper mutual funds trading practices, the reaction in the press and on the Street was swift and overwhelmingly breathless. In a headline, Money magazine announced...

The financial services industry is burdened by paperwork. But stock-jockey brokers should be thanking the Feds in at least one instance: for insider trading data. Insiders company officers, directors, relatives, anyone with access to key company...

It would appear that corporate cost cutting and a string of positive economic data are putting investors in a sunny mood again. Take, the Nasdaq, for example it's up by 40 percent this year. But before you chuck out all those bear funds that you...

So the market has finally remembered it can go up, and it appears that it's also learning how to sustain its rally. The foundation of this economic recovery is that the oversupply of goods and services that has been hobbling the U.S. economy too...

Just when it looked like all those scandals were behind us and the markets were helping mend fences with leery clients, the business has gotten yet another black eye. This time, the problem is with mutual funds more precisely how favored traders...

The mutual fund hangover is starting to subside. In 2000, fund investors and their advisors awoke to a doozey of a day-after: a market nosedive that caused investors not only to lose money but also socked them with capital gains tax bills for the...

Class B shares fell out of favor with fund investors two years ago, and they raise some suitability issues that may make brokers wary. Yet, to some, Class Bs remain a good option for small investors.