A ray of sunlight broke through the Washington fog last week when Neil M. Barofsky, special inspector general for the Troubled Asset Relief Program, published his office’s report on the government bailout last year of the American International Group.

Despite recent advances, the U.S. lags far behind other major countries when it comes to clean energy investment and experts say it may never compete on equal terms, let alone lead.

You’ll need to do some work to make an organic-apples-to-apples comparison between them, but they'll help you get to a company's sustainable bottom line.

Green investing has grown well beyond niche status, as the number of mutual funds and ETFs has increased enormously in recent years. Here's a list of the major ones.

Green exchange traded funds, ETFs, and mutual funds  provide the average investor an easy entrée into the nascent and sometimes volatile world of carbon conscious investing.

These are exciting times in the world of green. Washington is abuzz with the subject and Wall Street and Main Street are certainly taking note. So does this special report: "Invest in Green."  It is by no means an imperative. Green investing is an option and an increasingly more popular one.  Think of this as a starter's guide.

Supreme Court justices questioned Monday whether judges should decide the fairness of fees charged by the nation's $11 trillion mutual fund industry.

Investors are funneling more and more money into exchange-traded funds to brace against what is expected to be a difficult market in the coming months.

Citadel Investment Group, which last year banned redemptions from its hard-hit flagship hedge funds, is lifting those restrictions next month as fund performance rebounds, according to a letter to investors.

If 2008-2009 was the winter of our discontent, will 2009-2010 be a winter wonderland for investors? Given events of the past two years, we all have cause for being skeptical about the investment horizon, especially after a massive, six-month rally in equities and lingering concerns about corporate profits and the economy.

A weak dollar and global economic recovery should boost most commodities prices, but gold, oil, corn and sugar will fare the best.

Choosing between indexed and managed funds is really no choice at all: Investors who rely solely on one or the other these days are doomed to failure.

The trouble with mutual funds is that investors can feel as though they have put their money in a black box. Daniel Carroll, who started investing when he was 15, thinks he has a way to let average investors learn about investing while experts manage the money. The New York Times explains.

Many investors are still unconvinced that the rally is for real, and thus haven't participated in the meteoric run-up in stocks.

It’s been four decades since the go-go years of the late 1960s, when hot mutual funds captured the imagination of investors by reporting performance that was too good to be true. It’s been so long that Bank of America seems to have forgotten what happened.