When I began working at Morningstar more than 30 years ago (cue dinosaur jokes), Fidelity’s actively managed stock funds were the mutual fund industry’s shining stars. Peter Lynch had already retired, ...

Investors' search for consistent income without exposure to higher volatility has only gotten harder over the past decade. Stretching for yield has caused many investors to venture into riskier asset ...

Alternative assets have become an increasingly important component of model portfolios, offering investors unique opportunities to invest in private market assets that are typically available only to ...

Model portfolios continue to gain ground with financial advisors, who can select from a growing number of models to help manage their clients' investments. I use them for pretty much all of the ...

Vanguard has launched a new suite of model portfolios focused on corporate bonds. The model portfolios, the Vanguard Target Maturity Corporate Bond ETFs suite, feature a lineup of 10 index ETFs. The ...

RIA aggregators, broker/dealers and TAMPs are displaying a growing preference for custom model portfolios—and asset managers offering model portfolios are making this a priority, according to the July ...

As portfolio management becomes increasingly commoditized, the use of model portfolios is seen as the surest way to gain scale at the firm level. A new report from Cerulli Associates cites the trend ...

Fidelity Investments has expanded its model portfolio lineup for wealth management firms with the launch of two all-ETF model portfolio suites. The Fidelity Target Allocation ETF Model Portfolios and ...

Christine Benz: Hi, I’m Christine Benz for Morningstar. I’ve noticed that many investors do a good job of selecting investments, but they struggle putting the pieces together into a portfolio that ...

A lot of conventional wisdom regarding investing and wealth management has been questioned over the past couple of years. The best example is the traditional 60/40 portfolio. In the last couple of ...