Betterment CEO Jon Stein. Betterment for Business, the automated investing service’s foray into the 401(k) market, officially went live Wednesday with a group of 50 plan sponsors and participants. Boxed, a wholesale shopping app that signe...

It is best to quickly come to terms with the notion that we have entered a new market paradigm with opposing forces at play

Taking the leap into smart beta. OppenheimerFunds announced that it's diving into the world of smart beta with its new Factor Weighted ETFs. Securities are weighted on the basis of top line revenue, which OppenheimerFunds said more closely...

Keep calm. Four major banks in the U.K. – Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds Banking Group and Santander – are developing their own robo advisors aimed at mass-market consumers. According to The Financial Times (subscription required...

Two ETF analysts on what worries them about the rise of exchange-traded funds, including increased regulations over perceived liquidity concerns, broken markets and leveraged funds.

Advisors can’t compete on investment management; they should be generating “alpha” outside of security selection, McNabb says.

DoubleLine’s Jeffrey Gundlach thinks the Fed will regret its rate hike in December, and will have to dial back expectations for more increases this year as the economy worsens.