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FIXED INCOME DEC 07, 2010
Muni meltdown: Does a 'fast rally' lie ahead?

Forget the talk about a collapse in the municipal bond market — investors should be buying, according to a research note released last week by Municipal Market Advisors

FIXED INCOME DEC 07, 2010
Muni market meltdown: Is a 'fast rally' ahead?

Forget the talk about a collapse in the municipal bond market — investors should be buying, according to a research note distributed today by Municipal Market Advisors.

RIA NEWS DEC 07, 2010
OppenheimerFunds' Steinmetz hot on high-quality stocks, low-quality bonds

The best opportunities in the market right now are in “high-quality stocks and low-quality bonds,” according to Art Steinmetz, who took over this week as chief investment officer at OppenheimerFunds Inc.

Arc of the covenants as investors regain clout over junk bond issuers
FIXED INCOME DEC 06, 2010
Arc of the covenants as investors regain clout over junk bond issuers

Lenders demanding -- and getting -- more concessions from corporate borrowers; 'pushing back'

RIA NEWS DEC 06, 2010
Suddenly, investors in grip of red gold fever

Copper prices on the march, thanks to China consumption; 'the right time to stockpile it'

RIA NEWS DEC 06, 2010
RIA audits less frequent, tougher and 'kind of mean'

Dodd-Frank will be leading to changes in the SEC's adviser exam program, according to Robert Stype, managing partner at ACA Compliance Group.

REGULATION AND LEGISLATION DEC 06, 2010
DOL sues four investment firms over Madoff losses

The U.S. Labor Department sued four investment firms for allegedly failing to examine swindler Bernard Madoff's business practices before entrusting him with hundreds of millions of dollars in pension funds.

ETFS DEC 06, 2010
Will Vanguard's surge reignite ETF price war?

Index specialist's cheaper funds gaining fast on BlackRock, State Street; 'hard pill to swallow'

WIREHOUSES DEC 06, 2010
No contest: Merrill stomping MSSB in wirehouse wars

In the clash of the two largest U.S. brokerages, Bank of America Merrill Lynch is generating more profit with fewer people than Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC.

Tax breaks on brink? 'Zero plan' moves forward
RIA NEWS DEC 03, 2010
Tax breaks on brink? 'Zero plan' moves forward

Leaders of a presidential deficit commission recommend the elimination of all tax breaks for retirement, life insurance and employer-sponsored health care plans in their final report, which was released Wednesday and will be voted on by the full panel Friday morning.