The man behind the mask. Michael Batnick, the director of research for Ritholtz Wealth Management, takes a recent news article -- about an asset manager announcing he will equal-weight the S&P 500 as if it were a new strategy -- as an oppo...

There are substantially only four ways companies can deploy their cash

As part of our #FiduciaryFriday series this month, we asked TD Ameritrade Institutional's Skip Schweiss to provide his thoughts on the Labor Department's fiduciary rulemaking efforts. He has a very simple response to brokers...

Gough Financial joins the network. Gough Financial Group, a Wichita, Kan.-based advisory firm with $300 million of assets under management, announced Thursday that it joined Transcendent Advisor Networks, an office of supervisory jurisdict...

John Hailer says the federal government should not mandate a preference for passive index funds

Someone had to be first. Folio Investing and Folio Institutional announced Tuesday that it would be the first broker/dealer to offer NextShares, the actively managed funds that look like exchange-traded funds, directly to individual invest...