CHICAGO — Even though tax season just wrapped up, financial advisers and tax specialists say that it isn’t too early to help clients try to avoid the alternative minimum tax for 2007 returns.
BOSTON — Nearly three and a half years after PBHG Funds’ founders were charged with fraud, checks have started going out to mutual fund investors wronged by the alleged trading abuses at their former firm.
OTTAWA — While a bidding war goes on for BCE Inc., InvestmentNews learned last Tuesday that the Montreal-based telecom giant is under investigation by Market Regulation Services Inc. for a misleading, possibly fraudulent, press release.
New York-based TIAA-CREF has increased equity exposure on all seven of its lifecycle funds to 90% up from 80%, the company announced today.
Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. today reported a net profit of $16,790,000 or $1.28 per share for the first quarter, a 2.5% decrease from $17,217,000, or $1.36 per share, in the same quarter in 2006, the company announced today.
The Hartford Financial Services Group Inc. announced today that earnings rose 20% in the first quarter to $876 million, from $728 million for the same period a year earlier.
With a $13.4 billion offer, Citigroup Inc. yesterday closed on the largest foreign takeover of a Japanese company, Nikko Cordial Corp., according to published reports.
Firstrade Securities got the top overall score in the latest survey of online brokerage firms conducted by Consumer Reports.
Morgan Stanley & Co. Inc. today confirmed that chief executive John Mack, a registered Republican, has thrown his support behind Democratic New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in the 2008 presidential election, according to published reports.
