Sue Asci
Boston Bureau Reporter at Investment News. Connect with her on LinkedIn.
Boston Bureau Reporter at Investment News. Connect with her on LinkedIn.
Advisers and investors may snap up The Old Farmers Almanac, which hit the newsstands yesterday, not only for the weather forecasts but to see which way the wind is blowing when it comes to futures.
For the first time, American Funds shareholders will be voting this fall on whether to ask the boards of directors of 16 funds to institute a divestment policy against companies that do business in countries where genocide and crimes against humanity have occurred.
As wildfires continue to rage in Southern California, advisers are reaching out to clients.
The death of longtime health care advocate Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. gave a new spark to those fighting for universal health care.
Squeezed by rising bank failures and alarmed by its shrinking insurance fund, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. has made it easier for private-equity investors to buy failed institutions, but one prominent analyst believes that the move could lead to even more shuttered banks.
Advisers agree with President Obama's decision to nominate Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke for a second term.
Two former Merrill Lynch advisers are launching a new investment management business.
Money market mutual funds would benefit from a federal program to guard against the risk of illiquidity in the markets, analysts yesterday at the first Money Fund Symposium in Providence, R.I.
The continued zero interest rate environment may be presenting a bigger challenge to money market mutual fund managers than rule changes proposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission, several managers told participants today at the Money Fund Symposium in Providence, R.I.
Finra has expelled an investment firm in Southfield, Mich., for inappropriate practices that occurred in its retail foreign-currency business and repeated violations of registration and related rules, according to a statement.
