Robo-advisers might have more reasons to be worried about the next bear market than investors do.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> SunEdison's collapse shows that advisers should understand the steep side of the mountain renewable energy is trying to climb.
Corporate execs and activist investors get the biggest bang from repurchase plans.
Plus: Goldman takes a swipe at gold, fixing corporate inversions, and what baseball season does for food
Even though stock funds scored big gains in March, they're still trailing bonds for 2016.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Even after its best quarterly performance in nearly 30 years, gold could still have some upside to go.
Fidelity Investments, the second-largest U.S. mutual fund company, will test an automated-investment service starting Wednesday on a small group of existing customers.
Federal Reserve chairwoman cites heightened risks in the global economy as cause for caution
One of the lowest-cost fund companies gets into a war of words with an analyst over how it calculates expense ratios.
Plus: Consumers are borrowing like it's 2008, mortgage-backed securities are back in vogue, and college is for chumps
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> Liquid alts beating the hedge funds they're designed to mimic begs the question of why we even need hedge funds anymore?
Smart beta may be the most popular new strategy for mutual fund companies, but the real trend is towards funds with lower expenses.
Finding funds likely to beat their benchmarks remains the challenge, and where financial advisers can earn their keep
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> The Fed says the markets are too obsessed with too much information.
An interactive list of all the funds to be honored, across all years of return and categories
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> A couple of Vanguard and Fidelity mutual funds raise questions about when it is time to close a fund to new investors.
Even with its gains and long life, most investors have been lukewarm toward the stock market.
The minimum investment is $5 billion for the stock fund, and $3 billion for the bond fund.
<i>Breakfast with Benjamin</i> If the data is correct, women's investment returns have been trouncing men's for nearly a decade.
Ill-named strategy finds place between passive and active.
