PHILADELPHIA — When it comes to voting their proxies in elections for corporate directors, mutual fund companies prefer not to stand out from the crowd.
What has four feet, lives in a stable and could be your next investment? With the 139th Belmont Stakes coming up this Saturday, horse money can be found not just at the betting window but also in the thoroughbreds themselves.
CHICAGO — Wall Street’s eagerness to develop and sell exotic new products to the nation’s growing ranks of retirees is worrying regulators.
NEW YORK — Advisers hoping to convince clients that they need a long-term financial plan should do their best to appeal to the prefrontal cortex of their clients’ brains — and steer clear of the limbic system altogether.
NEW YORK — The needs of aging clients and their aging parents are compelling financial advisers to become more knowledgeable about elder-care issues.
BOSTON — The Hartford Mutual Funds, where assets have more than quadrupled since 2000, added three funds last week, including two requested specifically by financial advisers.
NEW YORK — The Financial Services Institute Inc. is gearing up for a fracas with regulators over the highly contentious issue of 12(b)-1 fees, an embedded annual charge in almost all mutual funds.
Principles-based rules won’t be a panacea for financial services and, in fact, could create more regulatory risk, some industry observers say. The concept of flexible rules is being pushed hard by business interests and regulators as the way to improve and modernize regulation.
Bank of America Corp. is counting on a new advisory business to help retain ultrahigh-net-worth clients once its $3.3 billion deal to acquire U.S. Trust Corp. from San Francisco-based Charles Schwab Corp. closes next month.
