Like LinkedIn’s 13 million other registered users, financial advisers are discovering that online networking can pay off.
Senate Finance Committee leaders are working on a plan to resurrect legislation to cap deferred compensation, which they could reintroduce next month as part of a bill that would extend popular education tax breaks.
NEW YORK — Despite the strides gay couples have made to have their relationships recognized by the courts, estate planning remains more complicated for them.
NEW YORK — Gulf Coast financial advisers are standing on higher ground two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated that region.
NEW YORK — After completing an overhaul of its top management late last year, Bear Stearns’ clearing and custody unit continues to hire new executives — some of whom are being recruited from top rivals.
CHICAGO — While income annuities are the most cost-effective way to provide income at retirement, investors are reluctant to purchase them, according to a new study.
IRVINE, Calif. — Market turmoil could create some pretty unhappy closed-end-fund investors and put a damper on the closed-end-fund-underwriting business. At the same time, professional closed-end-fund investors said that they are still buying their favorite issues, which now trade near historically large discounts to net asset value.
NEW YORK — Target date funds should take a liability-driven investing approach, protecting them from the bumps and grinds of equity markets, officials at Pacific Investment Management Co. contend.
NEW YORK — A company that specializes in the sale of restricted securities and other illiquid positions has formed a group to help owners of minority stakes in small to midsize companies sell their shares in private transactions.
The jolts that TD Ameritrade Holding Corp. experienced during 18 months of integration following the 2006 merger of TD Waterhouse Group Inc. and Ameritrade Holding Corp. have not dulled its appetite for more deals, according to chairman and chief executive Joe Moglia.
