Formal, public recognition of donors large and small has long been a no-cost way for charities to say “thank you” to those who provide financial support to a particular cause.

Across the industry, one thing is for sure: The market for financial advisors is hot.

Plaintiffs' lawyers periodically charge that mutual funds impose excessive fees. But costs in the industry have been declining steadily.

There is an old saying that chartists have: The trend will continue until it ends. Yes, it seems silly, even stupid. But, if you are a technician trying to divine future prices from past price movements and trading volume that saying is probably...

Not satisfied with having ushered in a new era of efficient, low cost, investment-savvy pooled investment products, ETF issuers insist on trying to reengineer their own (already pretty darn good) invention.

In trying to fathom the amount of capital that financial firms have destroyed since last summer, I called an acquaintance who used to work at Merrill Lynch.