Instead of being cause for celebration, this should heighten the awareness of financial advisors. Have your clients jumped back onto to the risk bandwagon? ...

Claymore, Direxion, Global X and Old Mutual roll out more ETFs. ...

State Street Global Advisors has just added the SPDR Barclays Capital Short Term Corporate Bond ETF (SCPB) to its ETF lineup. ...

The FaithShares funds attempt to adhere to each denomination’s religious values by avoiding publicly traded stocks that profit from alcohol, gambling, pornography, tobacco, weaponry and other off-limit activities. ...

Overall, though, equity funds were still down 24.24 percent from the 2007 market highs, notes Tom Roseen, Lipper’s research manager. ...

TIPS Funds took advantage of the inflation fears stoked by huge issuance and finished the year up 10.75 percent, despite giving back 1.94 percent in the volatile December market....

Richard Weil succeeds Janus Capital Group director Tim Armour....

The firm’s latest recruiting offer includes an upfront cash payment of 130 percent of trailing 12-months’ sales....

Website for women interested in becoming financial advisors has been visited by nearly 30,000 individuals since July 2009....

Fidelity’s attraction to 185 brokers and teams in 2009 represents about a 30 percent increase in recruiting for its institutional wealth services group over its 2008 results....

Get started on high-net-worth prospecting....

Over the past few years, there has been a massive feeding frenzy among broker-dealers....

As democratization extended credit to poorer and poorer households, some banking products shifted from a fire insurance model to a life insurance model....

Master Limited Partnerships are the backbone of U.S. energy infrastructure and offer investors more secure and predictable earnings than the broader market....

Some companies are poised for growth thanks to strengthening volumes, industry consolidation and their unique competitive advantages....