Baby boomers who are rich in real estate now can get cash out of their homes without taking on debt or making a payment, but at least one competitor questions whether the idea is a Faustian bargain.
SAN FRANCISCO — The biggest software company in the world may be forcing financial advisers to purchase expensive hardware in the wake of its recent upgrade.
PHILADELPHIA — When it comes to new indexes, those that eschew weightings based on market capitalization are all the rage.
BOSTON — Just because the Enron Corp. and market-timing scandals have led to greater disclosure requirements doesn’t mean that some mutual fund companies aren’t still burying some doozies in their regulatory filings, according to Russel Kinnel, director of mutual fund research for Morningstar Inc.
WASHINGTON — Be careful what you wish for with regard to cost basis reporting, as it might cause a headache of colossal proportions.
Regulators are backing off their aggressive pursuit of B share cases. In the clearest indication yet that enforcers have changed their tune, the SEC late last month dropped a prominent B share case against former Prudential Securities Inc. broker Robert Ostrowski.
In an effort to prevent top brokers from bolting, wirehouses quietly are backing down from their tough stance against allowing advisers to act as fiduciaries to employee retirement plans.
When it comes to Putnam Investments, it is the performance — not the parent — that matters, financial advisers say.
WASHINGTON — As Americans feel more stressed out over the erosion of corporate benefits and the solvency of social benefits programs, such traditional economic indicators as gross domestic product growth and household income are becoming less correlated to their perception of the economy’s well-being, according to a recently released study.
Focus Financial Partners LLC, barely a year old, purchased majority stakes in three more independent fiduciary wealth management firms last week — increasing its roster of firms to nine and tripling assets under management to $15 billion.
