Legg Mason Inc. today said James W. Hirschmann III has decided to relinquish his responsibilities as president and chief operating officer at the Baltimore-based money management firm.
JP Morgan Chase & Co. said it has launched JPMorgan Entertainment Advisors to provide financial and strategic advice, services and products to clients in the entertainment and media businesses.
Instinet Group Inc., a global agency broker, has announced the expansion of its BrokerShare commission sharing arrangement program to include non broker-dealers.
Health savings accounts are more than four times more popular with employers in a swath of Wisconsin than in the United States as a whole
Bear Stearns is planning a large-scale expansion in Europe and Asia, reported the Financial Times.
JP Morgan Chase & Co. has tapped Joe Jiampietro, a former UBS AG managing director in the financial institutions and governments team, making him the latest to leave the Zurich-based bank.
Morgan Stanley chief economist Stephen Roach, who has predicted that China will surpass the U.S. as the world's leading economy, was tapped to become the firm’s chairman of Asia operations.
Critics of short-selling practices they deem abusive are up in arms over what they say is continued inaction by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Financial Planning Association is hoping that the U.S. Court of Appeals ruling overturning the broker-dealer exemption rule will jump-start the trade group’s initiative to reach out to large financial services firms.
NEW YORK — The Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Inc. has found itself a new leader and is heading in a new direction — East.
The owners of the world’s largest search engine are taking dead aim at Yahoo! Finance, and many financial advisers are taking notice.
A new firm is assisting insurance agents in becoming registered investment advisers so the agents can obtain fee income from advice and securities products.
For the second consecutive year, the largest 25 independent-contractor broker-dealers saw top-line growth slow, even though it still was up by double digits.
The SEC can’t win for losing. As a result of judicial overrides of its major regulatory initiatives in the past year, the Securities and Exchange Commission is less likely to try bold new initiatives, experts on securities regulation say.
Courts and regulators will evaluate your effectiveness as an investment adviser against a process standard — as opposed to a performance standard.
BOSTON — The Schwab Charitable Fund is nipping at the heels of the Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program as the nation’s second-largest donor-advised fund.
IRVINE, Calif. — Smith Barney reps are supportive of the cost-cutting plan New York-based Citigroup Inc. announced April 11.
WASHINGTON — New default options that the Department of Labor will likely approve for 401(k) investments will have a “significant” impact on the way mutual fund assets are invested, independent fund directors were told at a conference here April 12.
The mutual fund giant said that it has started offering 401(k) plans an online platform that participants can use to purchase annuities.
