Keep it simple. Desperate times call for desperate measures. So complicated market environments call for complex investment strategies, right? At least that’s what investors (and asset managers) are hardwired to think, according to the la...

Pick door No. 3. Private wealth management firms were in high demand in 2015, dominating the financial transaction landscape among asset management firms with a record 59 deals, according to a new report by Sandler O’Neill. The firm attrib...

Researchers have determined that the part of the brain that is activated when using drugs such as cocaine – the nucleus accumbens – is also stimulated when making money. According to Kabir Sehgal, author of Coined, people making money and tho...

Working during retirement, by need or choice, throws many traditional retirement plans off track. Here’s how to adjust.  

Do retirement plan consultants have a fiduciary duty to bring guaranteed income products to retirement plan sponsors? 

If at first you don't succeed ... | Copyright Sean Gallup, Getty Images Edward Jones was the first firm to partner with the Securities Training Corporation to sponsor Series 7 prep courses at various universities in early 2015. But recentl...

This time is different. | Copyright Chip Somodevilla, Getty Images George Soros spoke at an Asian investment conference yesterday and told the crowd the current market meltdown reminded him of 2008, on the eve of the worst recession in dec...

Cyber criminals are paying a pittance for passwords, according to MarketWatch. Citing a recently released study by Trend Micro, MarketWatch reports that passwords for entertainment accounts with NetFlix, Hulu and Spotify go for as little as $...

Famed E.T. screenwriter Melissa Mathison passed away in November and nobody can find her will. TMZ obtained court documents, which reveal that Mathison’s business manager both confirms the existence of a will and the inability to actually loc...

He's not alone. | Fuse/Thinkstock A new study by professors at Nanyang Technological University and the University of Kentucky says it is. Stephen G. Dimmock, William C. Gerken and Nathaniel P. Graham studied the effect of career networks ...