Wall Street’s regulatory watchdog, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, is off to a slow start in the amount of fines and restitution ordered from broker/dealers and financial firms during the first six months of 2015...

As part of our #FiduciaryFriday series this month, we asked the Institute for the Fiduciary Standard's Knut Rostad to provide his thoughts on where the Securities and Exchange Commission's fiduciary efforts stand. Rostad finds there is a...

Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown The longer clients stay with Ritholtz Wealth Management, the less they will pay. The 2-year-old firm, run by Barry Ritholtz and Josh Brown, announced this week that they were implementing a policy of lowering ...

Putnam Investment's 2015 Financial Advisors and Social Media Survey from Putnam Investments More advisors are starting to see the value of using social media. According to a recent survey of over 800 advisors by Putnam Investments, 81 p...

The U.S. Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged on Thursday in a nod to concerns about a weak world economy, but left open the possibility of a modest policy tightening later this year...

Digital investment advisors, the so-called “robo-advisors,” were built to be low cost and highly scalable to attract millennial investors and disrupt the financial services industry. But their survival as standalone companies depends...

Less is more. | taxzi/iStock/Thinkstock Maybe actively managed funds underperform their passive counterparts not because of stock selection, but because most active fund managers just charge too much. John Rekenthaler at Morningstar did a ...