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LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES DEC 13, 2009
The adviser's intellectual

Advisers who grapple with the complexities of retirement income will be getting more help next year from Moshe Milevsky, an associate professor of finance at York University in Toronto and executive director of the Individual Finance and Insurance Decisions Centre.

MUTUAL FUNDS DEC 13, 2009
Morgan Stanley seeks 'star' manager

Morgan Stanley is quietly hunting for a new top executive to run its investment management business, one of the world's largest — albeit shrinking — money management operations.

RIA NEWS DEC 11, 2009
Stock futures hold gains after retail sales report

U.S. stock futures rose Friday, following overseas markets higher on a report that China's exports improved.

RIA NEWS DEC 11, 2009
Bob McCann lures four Merrill Lynch vets to UBS

Just A few weeks after officially joining UBS AG as the head of its U.S. wealth management business, Bob McCann has snared four veterans from his former firm, Merrill Lynch & Co., to help improve UBS' financial advisory business here.

REGULATION AND LEGISLATION DEC 11, 2009
Barney Frank will move to scrap amendment that would expand Finra's reach

House Financial Markets Committee Chairman Barney Frank, D-Mass., will move to strip a controversial amendment from the Investor Protection Act — which the House Financial Services Committee approved with a 41-28 vote today — that would give Finra power over a quarter of all federally-registered investment advisory firms.

RIA NEWS DEC 10, 2009
ING promotes execs to bolster multicultural outreach

ING today stepped up its multicultural outreach efforts by hiring a slate of new executives hailing from Latin America.

RIA NEWS DEC 10, 2009
Wells Fargo 3Q profit rises to $3.2 billion

Wells Fargo & Co. says its third-quarter profit nearly doubled from a year ago although it joins other big U.S. banks in reporting higher loan losses.

ALTERNATIVES DEC 10, 2009
Citadel scraps plan to sell E*Trade stock

Private equity firm Citadel Investment Group LLC said today that one of its affiliates has canceled a plan to sell a portion of its stake in retail brokerage firm E-Trade Financial Corp.

RIA NEWS DEC 10, 2009
E-Trade Financial prices public stock offering

The struggling online brokerage and bank looks to raise capital to pull itself out from under mortgage-related loan losses.

ALTERNATIVES DEC 10, 2009
Just two CDS clearinghouses will survive, analysts say

Although five exchanges will soon vie to clear credit default swap trades in Europe and the United States, the number is likely to dwindle to one on each side of the Atlantic in the next couple of years, according to analysts and industry participants.