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A leading lobby group for the world's financial institutions is warning investors not to get caught short in emerging markets if rich-country central banks end their easy and cheap money policy of the past few years.

The flow of cash into stock mutual funds during the first week of 2013 was the largest in more than 11 years, stirred in part by the 'fiscal cliff' deal.

Investors have had a nice four-year run in municipal bonds. Since the start of 2000, national long-term muni bond indexes have returned 8.5 percent annualized.

These days, the role of a broker involves more than just recommending the right insurance products for a business. Employers value brokers who function as consultants, helping them meet their companys HR objectives.

Stocks edged lower for a fifth day on concern that Washington lawmakers will fail to reach a budget deal before a year-end deadline. If stocks end the day lower, it will mark the longest losing streak in three months.

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has ordered a New Jersey company to pay more than $10.7 million in restitution, plus interest, to customers who placed mutual fund orders with Pruco Securities, LLC, via facsimile or paper orders from late 2003 to June 2011 and received an inferior price for their...

Defying decades of investment history, ordinary Americans are selling stocks for a fifth year in a row. The selling has not let up despite unprecedented measures by the Federal Reserve to persuade people to buy and the come-hither allure of a levitating market. Stock prices have doubled from March 2009,...

Principal's Larry Zimpleman argues that the tax deferral incentives in America's retirement plans look at the issue in the long term.