Studies show financial education doesn't offer long-term benefits, but changing investor behavior does. What's an advisor to do?

What happens to brokers after they violate rules and standards of conduct? This is what happens.

Let's consider how inequality affects the funding of our collective retirements in the United States of America. For example, Fortune 500 CEOs have $3.2 billion in special tax-deferred compensation accounts that are exempt from the annual contribution limits imposed on ordinary 401(k)s.

The California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS), the nations second-largest pension fund, is considering an aggressive move--here are 10 questions people might ask the pension fund manager as to why this is needed.

In 2011, the Securities and Exchange Commission published a study, mandated by the Dodd-Frank Act, which concluded that all financial advisers and stock brokers should be placed under a uniform fiduciary standard.

We are unlikely to know the full impact of Calperss decision for some time. It will, however, be influential.

Calpers is looking to reduce hedge-fund holdings by as much as 40 percent.

Of all the outrages endured during the financial crisis, perhaps the most perplexing involved money-market mutual funds.