Many insurers are providing incentives to their advisers to sell proprietary products, despite claiming to have “open architecture” platforms, according to industry observers.
Buoyed by the firm’s popularity with financial advisers, net inflows at American Funds have dwarfed its competitors’ over the past five years.
Fidelity Investments’ plan to subject more of its adviser-sold mutual funds to performance-fee adjustments got a chilly response last week from some financial advisers who said such incentives could encourage funds to take on too much risk.
With a House panel scheduled to hold a hearing Tuesday to discuss whether the hidden fees in 401(k) plans are fair, at least one industry watcher is calling such fees too low and another says making general judgments about them is difficult.
Expect a change in leadership within the stock market that will favor blue-chip stocks over riskier investments, several market experts say.
A former Wachovia Securities LLC branch manager in Toledo, Ohio, has been charged with stealing between $17 million and $40 million from about 45 investors by using a Ponzi-type scheme, according to the Department of Justice.
Industry lawyers are watching closely how New York’s highest court will settle a long - simmering battle over how much legal protection brokerage firms should have for statements made on so-called U-5 termination forms.
PHILADELPHIA — WisdomTree Investments Inc. of New York is betting that when it comes to fundamental indexing — indexes weighted not by market capitalization but by other factors — the simpler, the better.
WASHINGTON — The life insurance industry is concerned that a bill which would eliminate federal antitrust immunity for insurance could lead to unfavorable attention from the Federal Trade Commission.
NEW YORK — The impending private-equity buyout of Texas’ largest electricity producer may give rise to more deals in which environmental lobbyists are invited to sit at the negotiation table.
